We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my… — Xavier Samuel Copy Share Image
Just heard Paul Scholes has retired, best I’ve ever played against by a mile. Most technically gifted player in english history. Legend. — Joey Barton Copy Share Image
Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
English history consists largely of royal people getting their heads chopped off...Needless to say, this brand of history was a hit with… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
“The counts of Anjou and their lovely, but wicked wives gained such an unsavory reputation over the centuries that the people of… — Thomas B. Costain Copy Share Image
The more you look back into English history, the more you are forced to the conclusion that alongside civility and the deeply… — Anna Pavlova Copy Share Image
“After several years of struggle to bring the country to subjection, during which Henry had to keep armies in the field at… — Thomas B. Costain Copy Share Image
But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
“Wallingford, six miles above Streatley, is a very ancient town, and has been an active centre for the making of English history. … — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why the gunpowder treason Should ever… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Historians like a quiet life, and usually they get it. For the most part, history moves at a deliberate pace, working its… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“Francis stared down at the Duchess of York's letter. He swallowed, then read aloud in a husky voice, "It was showed by… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
There is no other Parliament like the English. For the ordinary man, elected to any senate, from Perisa to Peru, they may… — Josiah Wedgwood Copy Share Image
When I came to write my Thomas Cromwell books, I moved onto the center ground of English history, but I was never… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Edward I (1272–1307) was less a scholar than his father, and more a king; ambitious, strong of will, tenacious in war, subtle… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Gower is the first English writer to use "history" as an English word. He regularly rhymes the term with "memory," for to… — Russell A. Peck Copy Share Image
“The Angevin country begins between Normandy and Brittainy and continues down through Maine and Anjou. In the Middle Ages, this fair and… — Thomas B. Costain Copy Share Image
“Born on March 20, 1971, she celebrated her 100th birthday this past March. During the war she toured the battle zones, where… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
“And what do we do to fit our English-speaking Chinese, our docile and happy, our truly loyal servants, for the Asia of… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences -… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education. — Ian Harding Copy Share Image
Thus I have maintained by English history, that in proportion as the press has been free, English government has been secure. — Thomas Erskine Copy Share Image
I think in some parts of our English history we've had huge amounts of almost too much great comedy. You kind of… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
“With the ascension of Charles I to the throne we come at last to the Central Period of English History (not to… — W.C. Sellar Copy Share Image
Few people know anything of the English history but what they learn from Shakespear; for our story is rather a tissue of… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“The demands for vengeance, short of death, however, were so insistent that the wise counsels of Edward, the giver of victory, were… — Thomas B. Costain Copy Share Image
