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Quotes About Britannia

Britannia was prepared to derate the whole of her battle fleet and start afresh with new superbattleships but also that she had the wealth and means to do so while her rivals were still recovering from the shock of Dreadnought's appearance.
~ Richard Hough
O reverend Chaucere, rose of rethoris all,As in oure tong ane flour imperiall, That raise in Britane evir, quho redis rycht,Thou beris of makaris the triumph riall.
~ William Dunbar
Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
~ James Thomson
Probably what was history then is nothing but footnote now, and on that note, he notes she's barefoot, alone in the summer night light of the hall of the great stately house where, by coincidence (history, footnote), he happens to know that the song Rule Britannia was first ever sung.
~ Ali Smith
T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.
~ Joseph Addison
Back in Britannia he had placed Tilla on a list of potentially treacherous natives, and even though he was probably right, Ruso had never forgiven him.
~ Ruth Downie
Now I have seen what peace is like, I understand why you come to Britannia.
~ Ruth Downie
There was something indomitable about Maria – like Britannia. He'd heard that she kept her head during a Chilean earthquake the year before when men of greater age and experience had panicked. Afterwards she was discovered calmly taking notes, recording the way the land hand risen, for publication, she said.
~ Sara Sheridan
Pedimos ajuda para garantir que a luz do Evangelho não seja extinta na Britânia – disse o outro padre –, para que os pagãos sejam totalmente derrotados e assim o amor de Cristo preencha esta terra. – O que ele quer dizer – explicou Pyrlig – é que sabia que você estava na merda, por isso me procurou e pediu ajuda, e eu não tinha nada melhor a fazer.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Prince Cadwy of Isca was there, and King Melwas of the Belgae and Prince Gereint, Lord of the Stones, while distant Kernow, the savage kingdom at Britain's western tip, had sent its edling, Prince Tristan, who sat swathed in wolf fur at the dais's edge next to one of the two vacant thrones.
~ Bernard Cornwell
I have a camp fascination with all things musical theatre - I've even got the box set of 'Britannia High.'
~ Karla Crome
Britannia needs no bulwarks,No towers along the steep;Her march is o'er the mountain waves,Her home is on the deep.
~ Thomas Campbell
Britannia, that unfortunate female, is always before me, like a trussed fowl; skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape. I am sufficiently behind the scenes to know the worth of political life. I am quite an Infidel about it, and shall never be converted.
~ Charles Dickens
But in Britannia it was a different story. Here the fall of
~ David Starkey
No cabe duda de que el panteón druídico incluye gran cantidad de deidades griegas y romanas, lo cual dejó pasmado a César durante su conquista de Britania y la Galia y lo hizo afirmar que aquellas tribus adoraban a Mercurio, Apolo, Marte y Júpiter de una manera similar a la de los países latinos.
~ Unknown