The Dutch may havetheir Holland, the Spaniard have his Spain, TheYankee to the south of us must south of us remain; For not a man dare lift a hand against the men who brag That they were born in Canada beneath the British flag.

-Johnson, Pauline
  'Canadian Born', collected in Flint and Feather (1912).

By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin'eastward to the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me; For thewind isinthepalmtrees, an'thetemplebellsthey say: 'Come you back, you British soldier'; come you back to Mandalay!'

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'Mandalay'.

So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in the Soudan; You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man; An''ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, with your 'ayrick 'ead of 'airö You big black boundin' beggaröfor you broke a British square!

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'Fuzzy- Wuzzy'.

Dress British, look Irish, think Yiddish.

-Koffler, Murray
His formula for success, quoted in Frank Rasky  Just a Simple Pharmacist:  The Story of Murray Koffler, Builder of the Shoppers Drug Mart Empire (1988).

I can imagine no length of resistance to which Ulster can go in which I should not be prepared to support them, and in which, in my belief, they would not be supported by the overwhelming majority of the British people.

-Law, (Andrew) Bonar
  During the Irish Home Rule crisis, 27  Jul.

The British, he thought, must be gluttons for satire: even the weather forecast seemed to be some kind of spoof, predicting every possible combination of weather for the next twenty-four hours without actually committing itself to anything specific.

-Lodge, David John
  Changing Places, ch.2.

   Hail Cricket! glorious, manly, British game! First of all Sports! be first alike in fame!

-Love,James pseudonym of  James Dance
  'Cricket:  An Heroic Poem'.

We know of no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

-1st Baron
  In the Edinburgh Review.

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

-Stockton
  On the Profumo scandal, referring specifically to Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies,  Jul.

'Do not shoot,' it shouted.'I am a B-b-british object!'

-Malouf, David
  Remembering Babylon, ch.1.

Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke-stack, Butting through the Channel in the mad March days.

-Masefield,John Edward
  'Cargoes'.

A fleet of British ships of war are the best negotiators in Europe.

-Nelson, Horatio,Viscount Nelson
Letter to Lady Hamilton, Mar, before the Battle of Copenhagen.

There are two ways to teach mathematics.One is to take real pains toward creating understandingövisual aids, that sort of thing. The other is the old British style of teaching until you're blue in the face.

-Newman,James R
  Quoted in the NewYork Times, 30 Sep.

There will be a quick rash of hairy American filth, but it shouldn't threaten the existence of decent, serious British filth.

-Osborne,John
  On the opening of the US musical Hair, in Time magazine.

If a British guy saw someone at the wheel of a Rolls- Royce, he'd say 'come the revolution and we'll take that away from you, mate', where the American would say 'one day I'll have one of those, when I have worked hard enough'. It's unfortunate we Australians inherited the British mentality.

-Packer, Kerry
  In The Guardian,1 Sep. US Republican Senator and lawyer. He was Senator for Oregon from1969 until his resignation in1995.

   I would rather be British than just.

-Paisley, Ian
In the SundayTimes,12 Dec.

   I will walk on no grave of Ulster's honoured dead to do a deal with the IRA or the British government.

-Paisley, Ian
  Speech at the annual conference of the Democratic Unionist Party. In The IrishTimes,'ThisWeekThey Said', 6 Dec.

I therefore fearlessly challenge the verdict which this house†is to give on the question now brought before it†whether, as the Roman, in days of old, held himself free from indignity, when he could say Civis Romanus sum; so also a British subject, in whatever land he may be, shall feel confident that the watchful eye and the strong arm of England will protect him against injustice and wrong.

-Palmerston, HenryJohnTemple, 3rd Viscount
  From his four-and-a-half hour Don Pacifico speech, Jun. Don Pacifico was a PortugueseJew resident in Athens, born in Gibraltar and therefore a British subject. In support of his claims for compensation from the Greek government for damage done to his property by a mob, Palmerston sent the British fleet to blockade Piraeus and brought the two countries to the brink of war.

A British officer to be called Resident who shall be accredited to his Court and whoseadvice must be asked and acted upon on all questions other than those touching Malay religion and custom.

-Pangkor,Treaty of
  Treaty, Nov.

At last America is in my view; a dreary waste of white barren sand, and melancholy, nodding pines. In the course of many miles, no cheerful cottage has blest my eyes. All seems dreary, savage and desert; and was it for this such sums of money, such streams of British blood have been lavished away? Oh, thou dear land, how dearly hast thou purchased this habitation for bears and wolves. Dearly has it been purchased, and at a price far dearer still it will be kept. My heart dies within me, while I view it.

-Schaw,Janet   b.c.1730
c.1776  On her first sight of the country around Cape Fear. Journal of a Lady of Quality; BeingtheNarrative of aJourney from Scotland to theWest Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the years1774 to1776.