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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:
“There is much to be said against the climate on the coast of British Columbia and Alaska; yet, I believe that the scenery of one good day will compensate the tourists who will go there in increasing numbers.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“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)
“I know an Englishman,
Being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.”
—George Chapman c. 1559–1634, British dramatist, poet, translator. repr. In Plays and Poems of George Chapman: The Tragedies, ed. Thomas Marc Parrott (1910)