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British Quotes - I

British Quotes - I

1. The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. - Queen Elizabeth II

2. The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil. - Ronald Reagan

3. To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches. - Margaret Thatcher

4. Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. - Mahatma Gandhi

5. I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism. - Barack Obama

6. We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. - Thomas Babington Macaulay

7. The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst. - Winston Churchill

8. All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there. - Paris Hilton

9. I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers. - David Cameron

10. The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. - George Bernard Shaw

11. The British Government very naturally would like to see in India the form of democratic constitutions it knows best and thinks best, under which the Government of the country is entrusted to one or other political party in accordance with the turn of elections. - Muhammad Ali Jinnah

12. On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. - Nelson Mandela.

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