I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about… — Andrew Eldritch Copy Share Image
“He was perfectly astonished with the historical account gave him of our affairs during the last century; protesting “it was only a… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The terms "idiot" and "lunatic" were acceptable diagnostic terms in England up until 1959. "Imbecile" and "feeble-minded person" were, likewise, listed as… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The sea has formed the English character and the essential England is to be found in those who follow it. From blue… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
“The Aussies have spent so much time basking in the glory of the last generation that they have forgotten to plan for… — Geoffrey Boycott Copy Share Image
There are a lot more tabloids in England that like to report other things in your life, some of which are true… — Shane Warne Copy Share Image
People are important too, however, and what a terrible impact a total ban on hunting would have on the rural economy, which… — Ann Winterton Copy Share Image
It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“-in New York, a cat could look at a king. Hell, a cat could get himself elected king. But in England, where… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
I guess it's kind of the obvious thing for me to do 'cuz it's what I grew up listening to. The songs… — George Ezra Copy Share Image
There's nothing personal in it [THE SKRIKER]. I'm not ever inclined with any of the plays to say, This is about that,… — Caryl Churchill Copy Share Image
So . . . I feel in regard to this aged England . . . pressed upon by transitions of trade and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England [sic] for having cumulated all his… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
My mother and my father had very, very strong Scots accents. We were Australian, and in those days when I was young,… — George Ogilvie Copy Share Image
There is no ordinary run of mankind, there are only individuals who are totally different. And whether a man is naked and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
There is some evidence that average wave heights are slowly rising, and that freak waves of eighty or ninety feet are becoming… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
I had a friend who was the King's surgeon in England. One day I asked him what makes a great surgeon. He… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
And I know that this is prophetic: that God is going to send this mighty wave - I want everyone here to… — Todd Bentley Copy Share Image
Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
I'm a third-culture child. It's an interesting concept. Having an American father, a South American mother, born in England, grew up in… — Marie-Chantal Claire Copy Share Image
It's the UK: We have to get beyond that imperialist state. I think that kind of imperialist, hierarchical, elitist state has made… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It's a unique situation as well because England is a small country, so it makes it easy for the fans to travel.… — Claudio Reyna Copy Share Image
America is a younger country than England, obviously, and as self-awareness is forming in America - are we a collection of immigrants,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Two decades ago, however, socialism and communism died rudely, then were buried forever by the empirical demonstration of the superiority of market… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
As a nation, we English tend to be self-deprecating, looking down on ourselves. We're insular but also flexible, whereas in Germany, it's… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
Up until I think eighth grade - when I found out in front of a roomful of people - I believed that… — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih, is an eloquent and restrained portrait of one man's exile. It is a… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
You humiliate a rich person and they're still rich. You humiliate a brilliant person and they're still smart. A person who is… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The terrible thing in England is if you interview a thousand people, five hundred of them will talk like they're going into… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
She smelled like England, of soft rain and sun-kissed meadows. And she felt like the best kind of heaven. He wanted to… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I don't want Scotland to be more important than England. There's just a cancer of low self-esteem in Scotland and a general… — Limmy Copy Share Image
In 1979, I moved to England and photographed Joy Division and Bowie and Beefheart. At that time I got images that I… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
Marijuana is rejected all over the world. Damned. In England heroin is alright for out-patents, but marijuana? They'll put your ass in… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
I don't really know what Americans are like. I've no idea. I know a few things about them. In my imagination, they… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
I never learned music. I'm quite uneducated, and usually I sat in front of the TV, with soap operas on, in England.… — Graham Parker Copy Share Image
In eighteenth-century England, there was a practice of hiring a picturesque hermit who would inhabit the beautiful ruin on your estate. To… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image