Britannia Quotes & Sayings

To defeat evil, I must become a greater evil — Lelouch Vi Britannia

A long time ago, Nunally, Suzaku, and I talked about something. We wondered what happiness would look like if we could give it a physical form. If I'm not mistaken, I think it was Suzaku that said that the shape of happiness might resemble glass. His reasoning made sense. He said that even though you don't usually notice it, it's still definitely there. You merely have to change your point of view slightly, and then that glass will sparkle when it reflects the light. I doubt that anything else could argue its own existence more eloquently. — Lelouch Vi Britannia

You can't change the world without getting your hands dirty. — Lelouch Vi Britannia

By the time they reached Calais he was in tearing spirits. Once on board he had a small Scotch and pacing the deck watched with satisfaction the waves that Britannia traditionally rules. It was grand to see the white cliffs of Dover. He gave a sigh of relief when he stepped on the stubborn English soil. He felt as though he had been away for ages. It was a treat to hear the voices of the English porters, and he laughed at the threatening uncouthness of the English customs officials who treated you as though you were a confirmed criminal. In another two hours he would be home again. That's what his father always said: "There's only one thing I like better than getting out of England, and that's getting back to it." Already — W. Somerset Maugham

It wasn't me who was wrong, it was the world. — Lelouch Vi Britannia

If America does not wish to end her days in the same nursing home as Britannia she had best end this geo-babble about new world orders. Our war, the Cold War, is over. It is time for America to come home. — Pat Buchanan

A little knowledge would unlock the gates to vast and unsuspected gates of ignorance. — Ruth Downie

All the hatred in the world is gathered on me, as promised. So, all you have to do is to erase my existence, and put an end to this chain of hatred. The Black Knights will have the legend of Zero left behind for them. Schneizel will work for Zero. And now the world can be unified at one table, not through military force, but through negotiation and talk. Mankind can finally embrace the future. — Lelouch Vi Britannia

What do you do when there is an evil you cannot defeat by just means? Do you stain your hands with evil to destroy evil? Or do you remain steadfastly just and righteous even if it means surrendering to evil? — Lelouch Vi Britannia

If the king doesn't move, then his subjects won't follow. — Lelouch Vi Britannia

T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle,
And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile. — Joseph Addison

The trick of real combat is that everyone is human — Lelouch Vi Britannia

I am sorry, but I cannot be friends with a goddess, because I have signed a contract with a devil. — Lelouch Vi Britannia

When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia. — Tony Benn

what Cremica can make even Britannia and Parle cannot make! — Rashmi Bansal

What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia? — Sydney Smith

If I deliver to you the impossible, then I might have earned your trust. — Lelouch Vi Britannia

It was a mystery why the army bothered with a signal communication system when its men were so good at gossip. — Ruth Downie

The only ones who kill are those prepared to be killed — Lelouch Vi Britannia

The only ones who should kill, are those who are prepared to be killed. — Lelouch Vi Britannia

'Tis Liberty that crowns Britannia's isle, and makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile ... 'Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, and hold in balance each contending state, To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war, and answer her afflicted neighbours' prayer ... Soon as her fleets appear their terrors cease. — Joseph Addison

Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide. — Edward Young

Does Britannia, when she sleeps, dream? Is America her dream?
in which all that cannot pass in the metropolitan Wakefulness is allow'd Expression away in the restless Slumber of these Provinces, and on West-ward, wherever 'tis not yet mapp'd, nor written down, nor ever, by the majority of Mankind, seen,
serving as a very Rubbish-Tip for subjunctive Hopes, for all that may yet be true,
Earthly Paradise, Fountain of Youth, Realms of Prester John, Christ's Kingdom, ever behind the sunset, safe til the next Territory to the West be seen and recorded, measur'd and tied in, back into the Net-Work of Points already known, that slowly triangulates its Way into the Continent, changing all from subjunctive to declarative, reducing Possibilities to Simplicities that serve the ends of Governments,
winning away from the realm of the Sacred, its Borderlands one by one, and assuming them unto the bare mortal World that is our home, and our Despair. — Thomas Pynchon

If strength is justice, then is powerlessness a crime? — Lelouch Vi Britannia

I don't know if Barcelona have ever gone to a place like the Britannia Stadium and suffered the kind of onslaught from Tony Pulis' team of long throws and free-kicks or been up to a place like Blackburn and been beaten up by their long ball into the box. — Andy Gray

Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose. — William Cowper

Perhaps this is what I have always wished for since that day. The loss and destruction of all. That's right, one must destroy before creating. In that case, if my conscience becomes a hindrance to me, then I will simply erase it. I have no other choice but to move forward — Lelouch Vi Britannia

It's all about self-satisfaction, doesn't matter how hard you try, you can't do it, theirs no way you can change the world. — Lelouch Vi Britannia

Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves. — James Thomson

Ever since that day, I have lived a lie, the lie of living. — Lelouch Vi Britannia

I don't have the time, skill level, or experience to date one guy, let alone two. Fortunately, there's more to life than boys. How about we focus on something other than me finding a mate? — D.R. Graham

I feel 'Britannia High' is aimed at an older audience than 'High School Musical.' 'Britannia High' is more of a serious drama, with the music and dance on top. — Mitch Hewer

'Britannia High' is this new, edgy series which follows the lives of seven kids, their friendships, and the troubles they go through at stage school. — Mitch Hewer

Britannia's big enough to count, but remote enough not to matter. — Ruth Downie