British East India

Famous quotes containing the words east india, british, east and/or india:

    “An arch never sleeps.”
    —East Indian saying.

    “The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.”
    —Robert Morley (1908–1992)

    “At length, having come up fifty rods off, he uttered one of those prolonged howls, as if calling on the god of loons to aid him, and immediately there came a wind from the east and rippled the surface, and filled the whole air with misty rain, and I was impressed as if it were the prayer of the loon answered, and his god was angry with me; and so I left him disappearing far away on the tumultuous surface.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.”
    —Indira Gandhi (1917–1984)