England Quotes - Page 9

• Figo is as important to England as Beckham is.

  Mark Lawrenson

  Important, Beckham

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• I think the [New England] Patriots' season should have an asterisk next to it because everything they're accomplishing is against teams coached by people other than me.

  Zach Braff

  Team, Thinking, Should Have

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• There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures

  Henry Mayhew

  Towns, Tone, Morality

  Henry Mayhew (2012). “The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• If you want to swim across the English Channel from England to France - you have to leave your doubt on the beach in England.

  Lewis Gordon

  Beach, Swim, Doubt

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• When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Found

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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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• How long are women to remain a wholly unrepresented body of the people? This is a question that has of late been agitated in England, and women in this colony read, watch, and reflect...Why should not New Zealand also lead?...Why has a woman to power to vote, no right to vote, when she happens to possess all the requisites which legally qualify a man for that right?

  Mary Ann Muller

  Men, Long, People

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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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• I'm sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I'd want to run the show. They were shrewd, because that's exactly what I would have done.

  Brian Clough

  Running, Jobs, Done

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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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• So . . . I feel in regard to this aged England . . . pressed upon by transitions of trade and . . . competing populations,-I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well remembering that she has seen dark days before;-indeed, with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day, and that, in storm of battle and calamity, she has a secret vigor and a pulse like a cannon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kindness, Dark, Secret

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• . . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that if they were destroyed . . . old jobs and old ways of life could be preserved . . . At certain times in his life each man is tempted to become a Luddite, for there is always something he would like to go back to. But to be against all change-against change in the abstract-is folly.

  James A. Michener

  Life, Jobs, Men

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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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• New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice, not Milan while the American empire careens onward toward its unpredicted end. . . . It is the first American section to be finished to achieve stability in the conditions of its life. It is the first old civilization, the first permanent civilization in America.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Life, Destiny, Civilization

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

  Barry Davies

  Soccer, Football, Poland

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

  Zola Budd

  Tea, Favourite, Shops

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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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• It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, 3 hours in a seasick steamer, & after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak 3 times, & then be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

  John Masefield

  Home, Sick, Navy

  "Letters of John Masefield to Florence Lamont".

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• I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Kids, Eye, Blue

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