British Commonwealth Games

Famous quotes containing the words british, commonwealth and/or games:

    “In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it’s modern architecture.”
    —Nancy Banks-Smith, British columnist. Guardian (London, February 20, 1979)

    “This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own....”
    —Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    “At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)