Famous quotes containing the words british and/or title:
“You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Lets not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.”
—Paddy Chayefsky (19231981)
“He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind. He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to superiority. His very talents will be a hindrance to him.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (18001859)