England Quotes - Page 10

• ... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering. I have contemplated their order from the Magi of the East to the Saints of the West and I have found no difference of character, but of more or less caution, in proportion to their information or ignorance on whom their interested duperies were to be played off. Their sway in New England is indeed formidable. No mind beyond mediocrity dares there to develop itself.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Lying, Father

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• But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, England, the United States-are those that have preserved freedom for themselves and have given it to others. Of the despotism to which unrestrained military power leads we have plenty of examples from Alexander to Mao.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Military, Power, Sea

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• Boy, the things I do for England.

  Prince Charles

  Work, Boys

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• There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

  Oscar Wilde

  Work, Men, Numbers

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.437, University of Chicago Press

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• Shortly after that, we got management problems over in England, and Judas Priest asked me to join.

  Glenn Tipton

  Management, Problem, Priests

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• I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone.

  Ray Davies

  Thinking, Long, India

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• Perhaps we could revisit the issue of World Cup Host selection for 2018/2022 as some countries feel, and we did say, they are more suitable. Russia was the only high risk location for 2018 and racial chanting is rife there but a Mr. R. Abramovich paid a significant fee to fund the voting proceedings and, not to be discriminatory, we would have to see the same thing from any England/Spain representatives wishing to have another vote.

  Sepp Blatter

  Country, Issues, Russia

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• I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had I seen nothing else in England but this, I should have thought my journey thither amply rewarded.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Journey, Should Have, House

  Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.26, BoD – Books on Demand

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• There's a lot of good things about England, but I don't want to tell you too many of them.

  Michael Clarke

  Want, Good Things

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• My favourite setting are England, because I was born here and love it, and Spain, because it's fabulous and so romantic.

  Diana Hamilton

  Fabulous, And Love, Spain

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• Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.

  John Pople

  Summer, Children, East

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• The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema.

  Derek Jarman

  Sound, Cinema, Stories

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• The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory.

  Gilbert Burnet

  Law, Grievance, Nations

  Gilbert Burnet, Sir Thomas Burnet (1734). “Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time ...: From the revolution to the conclusion of the Treaty of Peace at Utrecht, in the reign of Queen Anne. To which is added, the author's life, by the editor”, p.658

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• Much attention has been focused on the MMR shot itself, whereas in all probability it is a combination of the three factors listed above: the increasing number of vaccines, the large amount of mercury, and the inherent danger of the triple vaccine.....The MMR vaccine is also especially suspect because laboratories in England, Ireland, and Japan have found evidence of MMR vaccine viruses in the intestinal tracts of autistic children, but not in control group, non-autistic children.

  Bernard Rimland

  Children, Japan, Vaccines

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• We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Beats, Massacres

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• Poland nil, England nil, though England are now looking the better value for their nil.

  Barry Davies

  Soccer, Football, Poland

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• There was interest from clubs in Italy and England, I believe. But I've never been attracted by the way they play in Italy. Staying in Spain was always my preference.

  Luis Figo

  Stay Strong, Believe, Play

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• To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

  John Mortimer

  Hate, Hats, Bowlers

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• Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.

  Zola Budd

  Tea, Favourite, Shops

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• You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.

  Peter Oliver

  People, Ignorant, Temper

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• I remember my second game for England - we lost 2-0 to Norway, I was subbed and didn't do myself justice and I thought that was the end of my England career.

  Teddy Sheringham

  Games, Careers, Justice

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• For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Fighting, Son, Gun

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• What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.

  Flora Tristan

  Intellectual, Slavery, Flora

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• The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.

  A. P. Herbert

  Funny, Humor, Men

  'Uncommon Law' (1935) 'The Reasonable Man'

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• Motive is also important in our quest for knowledge and in the questioning that accompanies it. In commenting on our duty to educate for eternity, Eugene England writes: Teaching or learning - with the Spirit of God simply means (though it is not simple) that we are doing so with an eye single to eternal, not worldly, values, with an eye single to lasting development of the mind and spirit and to useful service to others, especially to aid in their lasting development of mind and spirit.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Teaching, Writing, Learning

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