British Navy Quotes:

Military power tends to be a function of economic power, and the British Navy was the essential capability for establishing the imperial sway - which was attuned to furnish the raw materials for the British manufacturing ascendance. So they were mutually reinforcing.

- Charles R. Morris

source: Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

topic: Military, British Navy, Essentials

The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.

- William Falconer

source: William Falconer (2012). “Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)”, p.146, BoD – Books on Demand

topic: British Navy, Names, Ships

The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Army, British Navy, Royal, Lashes, Misquoting

What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.

- Ernest Bevin

topic: Years, British Navy, World

There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount.

- Graham Chapman

topic: Mean, Navy, Cannibalism, British Navy

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Funny, Tradition, Lashes, Maritime, Don't Talk To Me

The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy.

- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

source: "Memories". Book by Admiral 'Jacky' Fisher, p. 18, 1919.

topic: War, Army, Navy, Projectile, British Navy