England Quotes - Page 12

• Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.

  Chris Barber

  Pace, Jazz, More Time

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• Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much sense as forcing modern residents of England to wear laurels and togas.

  Steven Pinker

  Latin, Writing, Editing

  Steven Pinker (1994). “The Language Instinct”, William Morrow & Company

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• If you're successful, it's important to enjoy it! I love shopping for clothes, branded clothes. I love shopping in England, Dubai. I like to travel whenever I can.

  Suresh Raina

  Successful, Dubai, Shopping

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• A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how little he alludes to his own; ... This abnegation of his own opinion, and this implicit deference to the opinion of his forefathers, which are common to the English and American lawyer, this servitude of thought which he is obliged to profess, necessarily give him more timid habits and more conservative inclinations in England and America than in France.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  England And America, Law, Giving

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2004). “Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II”, p.235, Bantam Classics

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• The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Law, Judging, Trials

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• A team of British lawyers has now concluded that the Declaration of Independence was illegal, and the American colonies had no right to secede from England. Well, you thought our court system was backed up.

  Jay Leno

  Team, Independence, Lawyer

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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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• I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Trust, Europe, People

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.232, Vintage

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• In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Disappointment, Crazy, Exercise

  Oscar Wilde, Merlin Holland (2003). “Collins complete works of Oscar Wilde”, HarperCollins UK

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• Watching the Dallas Cowboys perform, it is not difficult to believe that coach Tom Landry flew fourengines bombers during World War II. He was in B17 Flying Fortresses out of England, they say. His cautious, conservative approach to every situation and the complexity of the plays he sends in do seem to reflect the philosophy of a pilot trained to doggedly press on according to plans laid down before takeoff. I sometimes wonder how the Cowboys would have fared all this years had Tom flown fighters in combat situations which dictated continuously changing tactics.

  Len Morgan

  Philosophy, War, Believe

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• There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.

  Washington Irving

  Morning, Book, Home

  Washington Irving (1843). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq. (Wasington Irving)”, p.172

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• A few years ago England would have struggled to beat the Eskimos

  Ian Botham

  Years, Years Ago, Beats

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• I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test

  Ian Botham

  Team, Thinking, Two

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• England's always expecting. No wonder they call her the Mother Country

  Fred Trueman

  Mother, Country, Wonder

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• One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England.

  Steven Morrissey

  People, Torture, Concern

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My coming to England in this way is, as I realize, so unusual that nobody will easily understand it. I was confronted by a very hard decision. I do not think I could have arrived at my final choice unless I had continually kept before my eyes the vision of an endless line of children's coffins with weeping mothers behind them, both English and German, and another line of coffins of mothers with mourning children.

  Rudolf Hess

  Mother, Children, Eye

  "Rudolf Hess: Prisoner of Peace". Book by Ilse Hess, 1982.

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• The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Artist, Architecture, Architect

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.423

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• As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic [slave rebellions in the South] failed, it became obvious to the conspirators that an actual military invasion was the only solution to their campaign. The merchant bankers of New England, who were directly controlled by the Rothschilds, were no instructed to finance a military attack against the South. Their instrumentality was the already well-known terrorist, John Brown. He was financed by a group famed as "the Secret Six".

  Eustace Mullins

  Military, War, Secret

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• I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Country, Thinking, Literature

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• The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else be false to my conscience and my God. I cannot shape the truth; I know of no such thing as paring off the rough edges of a doctrine. John Knox's gospel is my gospel. That which thundered through Scotland must thunder through England again.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Scotland, Rough Edges, Doctrine

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.56, Barbour Publishing

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• I could take on England, but I couldn't take on one heroin user.

  John Lydon

  Heroin, Users

  "The Filth and the Fury". Documentary, Biography, Music, www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England

  Queen Victoria

  Book, Supremacy, Accounts

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• There is a lot of luck in football. Following England is like following Wycombe Wanders or Leyton Orient. You hope for the best and hope you are lucky.

  Alan Sugar

  Football, Luck, Wander

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• If King Harold had had swans on his side, England would still be Saxon.

  Connie Willis

  Kings, Swans, Sides

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.143, Bantam

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• When all is said, its atmosphere [England's] still contains fewer germs of aggression and brutality per cubic foot in a crowded bus, pub or queue than in any other country in which I have lived

  Arthur Koestler

  Country, Feet, Atmosphere

  Arthur Koestler (1973). “The lion and the ostrich: the eighth annual lecture under the "Thank-offering to Britain Fund."”, Not Avail

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