Quotes with england

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  • George Moore No place in England where everyone can go is considered respectable.
    George Moore
    Irish writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Bryan Robson Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Captain J. G. Stedman Old England liberty - to be robbed by the Ministry, and insulted by the populace without redress.
    Captain J. G. Stedman
    British soldiar, writer, artist (1744 - 1797)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Archibald MacLeish Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.
    Archibald MacLeish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Bob Barr The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word 'No.'
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Douglas Jerrold The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Barbara Cartland The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Bernhard von Bulow The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated.
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • Margot Asquith The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.
    Margot Asquith
    Anglo-Scottish socialite, author, and wit (1864 - 1945)
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  • William Blake 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.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Booth Tarkington The middle-aged stranger whom I met by chance upon the lower rocks at Mary's Neck, that salt-washed promontory of the New England coast, was at first taciturn but became voluble when a little conversation developed the fact that we were both from the Midland country.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Joseph Wood Krutch The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
    Joseph Wood Krutch
    American writer, critic, and naturalist (1893 - 1970)
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Samuel Johnson The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Benjamin Haydon The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Arthur Murphy The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.
    Arthur Murphy
    Irish writer
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  • Bernard Bailyn 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.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 182
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Caleb Cushing The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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