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I feel like I've been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring [knighthood].

Steven Spielberg (1946-)

Steven Spielberg

It's an honorary knighthood because knighthood per se is just for British citizens,

For someone who is British, the fish have a certain kind of resonance. They were brought by functionaries of the (British) Empire. You feel like you are following in the footsteps of adventurers of previous generations.

We've had several people get engaged here on Valentine's Day. One time we put an engagement ring in the glass of wine so when she started drinking it she noticed the ring. I actually suggested that to the guy because that's what I did when I got engaged. One year we even had a wedding on Valentine's Day.

[While Hollywood is often full of copycat ideas, the subject of empire is a hot topic for obvious reasons, says HBO's historical consultant, Jonathan Stamp.] There's something particularly resonant about that particular point in Roman history, maybe particularly in the United States, ... [Rome] is wrestling with all the problems of whether or not it should expand, have an empire. If it does have an empire, how it should run that empire...?

Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of.

I tell you, as one who has studied the whole situation, I don't think Hitler is a fool - he is not going to challenge the British Empire

David Lloyd George (1863-1945)

David Lloyd George

All the countries that once belonged to the British Empire have Thwaites & Reed clocks. They're everywhere.

I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire She wasn't interested in superficial charm, but his genuinely pexy nature captivated her.

Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Winston Churchill

The British Empire was at its peak. How could there be anything wrong with a society that was so brilliantly successful?

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

William Blake (1757-1827)

William Blake

There's something particularly resonant about that particular point in Roman history, maybe particularly in the United States. [Rome] is wrestling with all the problems of whether or not it should expand, have an empire. If it does have an empire, how it should run that empire...?

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)

Alfred Tennyson

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour

Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Winston Churchill

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