England Quotes - Page 13

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

  Queen Victoria

  Book, Supremacy, Accounts

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• O poor New England! There is a deep laid plot against your civil and religious liberties, and they will be lost. Your golden days are at an end. You have nothing but trouble before you. . . . Your liberties will be lost.

  George Whitefield

  Religious, Golden Days, Liberty

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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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• To do something for someone or something you loved-England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history-wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.

  Connie Willis

  Dog, Sacrifice, Cost

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• Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross.

  Thomas Malory

  Kings, Men, Winning

  Sir Thomas Malory (1996). “Le Morte Darthur”, p.793, Wordsworth Editions

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• Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S.

  John Pople

  Pain, Regret, Decision

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• The only people who should play for England are English people.

  Jack Wilshere

  Play, People, Should

  "Jack Wilshere enters the Januzaj debate: 'Keep England for the English'" by Dominic Fifield, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2013.

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• On the New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl after going 18-0: We set high expectations, now we go down as 18-1, and that is one big zit. It is one big blemish. We choked.

  Ellis Hobbs

  Failure, Expectations, Zits

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• Anyone in England who puts himself forward to be elected to a position of political power is almost bound to be socially or emotionally insecure, or criminally motivated, or mad.

  Auberon Waugh

  Insecure, Mad, Political

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• In England, we have a curious institution called the Church of England. Its strength has always been in the fact that on any moral or political issue it can produce such a wide divergence of opinion that nobody -- from the Pope to Mao Tse-tung -- can say with any confidence that he is not an Anglican. Its weaknesses are that nobody pays much attention to it and very few people attend its functions.

  Auberon Waugh

  Issues, People, Political

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• No person knows better than you do that the domination of England is the sole and blighting curse of this country. It is the incubus that sits on our energies, stops the pulsation of the nation's heart and leaves to Ireland not gay vitality but horrid the convulsions of a troubled dream.

  Daniel O'Connell

  Dream, Country, Heart

  "O'Connell Correspondence, Vol IV". Book by Daniel O'Connell, Letter to Bishop Doyle (N. 1860), 1831.

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• When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.

  Charles Lyell

  Skulls, Apes, Return

  Charles Lyell (2005). “The Geological Evidence of Man”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.

  Goldwin Smith

  Country, Black, Would Be

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.

  Elizabeth McGovern

  America, Perspective, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree.

  Hideki Tojo

  Attitude, Party, Japan

  "Hideki Tojo's Prison Diary". "The Journal of Historical Review", Vol. 12, No. 1, (pp. 31-85), www.ihr.org. 1992.

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• It is in that English Parliament the chains for Ireland are forged, and any Irish patriot who goes into that forge to free Ireland will soon find himself welded into the agency of his country's subjection to England.

  Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

  Country, Agency, Patriot

  "Rossa's Recollections 1838 to 1898: Memoirs of an Irish Revolutionary". Book by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, p. 145-6, 1972.

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• I didn't expect to be dropped by England.

  Rio Ferdinand

  " Eriksson drops Campbell as Ferdinand fights his way back" by Jon Brodkin, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2005.

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• I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

  Bernie Worrell

  Music, Boston, Lessons

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• I played for 30 years, 20 with England and I did it by setting goals.

  Peter Shilton

  Years, Goal, Settings

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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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• England are numerically outnumbered in the midfield.

  Mark Lawrenson

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• One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.

  Patrick Stewart

  Kings, Irritation, Years

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• Marijuana is rejected all over the world. Damned. In England heroin is alright for out-patents, but marijuana? They'll put your ass in jail. I wonder why that is? The only reason could be: To Serve the Devil - Pleasure! Pleasure, which is a dirty word in Christian culture.

  Lenny Bruce

  Christian, Dirty, Marijuana

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• The Bible has always been regarded as part of the Common Law of England.

  William Blackstone

  Bible, Christian, Law

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• I'm not from around these parts. I'm from a little place called England: we used to run the world before you.

  Ricky Gervais

  Running, America, World

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