A ship, an isle, a sickle moon With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
He's not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John) — Bill Shankly Copy Share Image
To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying. West,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I'm three-quarters Russian, so I've always felt an outsider. But I don't think you can be in a play with John Of… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I believe if I should die, And you should kiss my eyelids where I lie Cold, dead, and dumb to all the… — Mary Ashley Townsend Copy Share Image
Pure and undimmed, thy angel smile Is mirrored on my dreams, Like evening's sunset-girded isle Upon her shadowed streams: And o'er my… — Benjamin Copy Share Image
I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
How can I ever trust you? (Acheron) You can’t. But I have lived inside your memories for the last three years. I… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Without history we are infants. Ask what binds the British Isles more closely to America than to Europe and only history gives… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Id love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The realm of death seems an enemy's country to most men, on whose shores they are loathly driven by stress of weather;… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
And so, perhaps, the truth winds somewhere between the road to Glastonbury, Isle of the Priests, and the road to Avalon, lost… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
I love being able to go on local flights when the weather is right. I've popped to the Isle of Wight, Cornwall… — Jay Kay Copy Share Image
'A Naval History of Britain' which begins in the 7th century has to explain what it means by Britain. My meaning is… — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Beautiful isles! beneath the sunset skies tall, silver-shafted palm-trees rise, between full orange-trees that shade the living colonade. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
