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  • When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.
  • 'The Talk-Funny Girl' opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England family. Poverty has so brutalized the family that the ordinary laws and rules governing humanity have eroded, turning systems of behavior upside down.
  • My first ever-ever professional role was in a television show in England called 'Love Soup.' It starred Tamsin Greig. I just played a small role - I think officially my role was 'teenage boy' - it was one episode.
  • The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.
  • The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.
  • The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution, there were no limits (save for the effect of trail by jury) to what the legislature might do.
  • There are a lot of good men's magazines. In England, you have 'Arena Homme+' and 'Another Man;' and in France we have 'L'Officiel Hommes.' But all are looking similar.
  • 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.
  • England still stands outside Europe. Europe's voiceless tremors do not reach her. Europe is apart and England is not of her flesh and body. But Europe is solid with herself.
  • In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.
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  • Voltaire If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Jimmy Cannon England produces the best fat actors.
    Jimmy Cannon
    American sportswriter (1909 - 1973)
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  • Rebecca West In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Carolyn See 'The Talk-Funny Girl' opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England family. Poverty has so brutalized the family that the ordinary laws and rules governing humanity have eroded, turning systems of behavior upside down.
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    American writer (1934 - 2016)
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  • James I of England A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
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  • Bill Bryson An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Randolph Churchill Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.
    Randolph Churchill
    British journalist and writer (1911 - 1968)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Matthew Hale Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.
    Matthew Hale
     
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  • George Bernard Shaw England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Lord Burleigh England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.
    Lord Burleigh
    English statesman
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  • Victor Hugo England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Robert Burton England is paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • George Orwell England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • John Bright England is the mother of Parliaments.
    Speech at Birmingham (1865)
    John Bright
    British politician (1811 - 1889)
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  • John Maynard Keynes England still stands outside Europe. Europe's voiceless tremors do not reach her. Europe is apart and England is not of her flesh and body. But Europe is solid with herself.
    The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1920)
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Bill Bryson England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde England will never be civilized till she has added Utopia to her dominions.
    The critic as artist
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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