“Arise for the work of humankind. Be humble. However grand you are today or may become tomorrow, you too will be forgotten.… — Mark Carney Copy Share Image
“Dickens's humanity and compassion made an extraordinary impact on Victorian England through his writings, which remain immensely popular. This bicentenary should help… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but… — Karl Philipp Moritz Copy Share Image
“Miss Patty and Miss Maria are hardly such stuff as dreams are made of," laughed Anne. "Can you fancy them `globe-trotting' --… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Commemorative stone in the floor of the Chapel of St. George in Westminster Abbey, London, dedicated in 1947: TO THE MEMORY OF… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
“Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, and all of London blinked back to a delighted Maude. She and Matt stood… — Anna Adams Copy Share Image
“West Country novelist Thomas Hardy almost did not survive his birth in 1840 because everyone thought he was stillborn. He did not… — Phil Mason Copy Share Image
I mean, you can't walk down the aisle in Westminster Abbey in a strapless dress, it just won't happen - it has… — Bruce Oldfield Copy Share Image
In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish… — Karl Philipp Moritz Copy Share Image
On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey. — Karl Philipp Moritz Copy Share Image
There is laughter that goes so far as to lose all touch with its motive, and to exist only, grossly, in itself.… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
A group touring Westminster Abbey in London heard the guide list the famous people buried within its walls. During a momentary silence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
“They bear down upon Westminster, the ghost-consecrated Abbey, and the history-crammed Hall, through the arches of the bridge with a rush as… — Hume Nisbet Copy Share Image
Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, and his seeking for… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
He who is faithful over a few things is a lord of cities. It does not matter whether you preach in Westminster… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, whether it was in a little church or Westminster Abbey didn't matter: it was me, as… — James William Middleton Copy Share Image
“When the Bolide Fragmentation Rate shot up through a certain level on Day 701, marking the formal beginning of the White Sky,… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Why, Hurst couldn’t have hit the side of Westminster Abbey with a pistol, even by throwing the silly thing.” — Patricia Cabot Copy Share Image
“The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without… — Frederick Lewis Donaldson Copy Share Image
