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- Bob Simpson (journalist) (1944–2006), foreign correspondent for the BBC
- Robert Simpson (composer) (1921–1997), English composer
- Robert Simpson (UK politician) (1923–1997), Northern Irish politician
- Robert Winthrop Simpson (1799–1877), rear-admiral of the Chilean Navy
- Robert Simpson (cricketer) (born 1962), English cricketer
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Famous quotes containing the word british:
“It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power. We do not believe that a tide rises and falls behind every man which can float the British Empire like a chip, if he should ever harbor it in his mind.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The British are a self-distrustful, diffident people, agreeing with alacrity that they are neither successful nor clever, and only modestly claiming that they have a keener sense of humour, more robust common sense, and greater staying power as a nation than all the rest of the world put together.”
—Quoted in Fourth Leaders from the Times (1950)
“Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)