But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
“This is an odd one. You have one country in the world where a word has a deeper meaning, it can really… — Todd McFarlane Copy Share Image
The grotesque prudishness and archness with which garlic is treated in [England] has led to the superstition that rubbing the bowl with… — Elizabeth David Copy Share Image
I have written millions of words about contemporary England - in journalism. Why don't I take it as the background for a… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America -- as… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
In England if something goes wrong--say, if one finds a skunk in the garden--he writes to the family solicitor, who proceeds to… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“These friends - and he laid his hand on some of the books - have been good friends to me, and for… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
And I profess still, that whatsoever the church of England (the church, I say, not every doctor) shall forbid me to say… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
My mother found a way out of a little one-bedroom apartment in Athens, Greece to bring Arianna to Cambridge to study economics… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
We had a wonderful trip, a seven-day trip, talking and sitting in the sun and so forth [with Bernard Leach]. And as… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
The thing that you have in England that we don't have in the U.S. is state-supported theatre. We have not-for-profit in the… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
The only funny part about Colonial Dunsboro is maybe it's too authentic, but for all the wrong reasons. This whole crowd of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary… — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
In England, there are only two things to be, basically: You are either for the labor movement or for the capitalist movement.… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I was born in England and brought up in London. When I was 18 I read a book and came across the… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Nothing is wrong with Tom Brady. When you look at the New England Patriots, they are going to have to readjust how… — Sterling Sharpe Copy Share Image
England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life… — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
What a joy it is to read a book that shocks one into remembering just how high one's literary standards should be.…… — Noah Richler Copy Share Image
For me, Scholesy's the best footballer England has produced in my time. The way he controlled games, passed the ball, saw things… — Wayne Rooney Copy Share Image
The media in the States can be quite self-reflective. When I lived in England, I was much more aware of the day-to-day… — Max Minghella Copy Share Image
I feel I have grown up. I am a man. It's important in my football too. When everything is good, I don't… — Cristiano Ronaldo Copy Share Image
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When I first left drama school, I was too posh for the working-class parts and not posh enough for the upper-class roles.… — Ben Chaplin Copy Share Image
I grew up in England at a time when England was winning Nobel Prizes right and left. I mean it was amazing… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
In 1946, Oxford University in England was offered large funds to create a new Institute of Human Nutrition. The University refused the… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the… — Lennox Lewis Copy Share Image
I'd signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England. That has a particular history and I think we… — Alan Green Copy Share Image
A great number of soundings, mainly along the continental slope of the New England States were also taken by the vessels of… — Alexander Agassiz Copy Share Image
If we carry purism to it's logical conclusion, to do it right {fishing} you'd have to live naked in a cave, hit… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
I think there are a number of reasons, not least of which is the personality of the Queen [ Elizabeth II]. It's… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
Three years after my first trip to Haiti, I realized there was another emotional note that had to be reckoned with: the… — Alex Webb Copy Share Image
I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho' not of that Country, my… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
The whole trouble with the Republicans is their fear of an increase in income tax, especially on higher incomes. They speak of… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
In England, philosophers are honoured, respected; they rise to public offices, they are buried with the kings... In France warrants are issued… — John Dewey Copy Share Image