Books Quote by Annie Besant

But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. The…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human”

— Charles Dickens

“institutional facts in general require language because the language is partly constitutive of the facts. But”

— John Rogers Searle

English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical…

— James Anthony Froude

Churchill is so particular. He's as different from the rest of the population of Britain as he is from me.

— John Lithgow

When I went to college - when I read Shakespeare or Dickens or Scott - I just felt that, as a citizen of England,…

— Derek Walcott

“had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more…

— Charles Dickens

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own…

— Paul de Man

“More recently, during a debate in the House of Lords in 1978 one of the members said: "If there is a more hideous language…

— Bill Bryson

“As long as you have broad representation from many parts of society, representative government works extremely well. And it works even better when the…

— Ben Carson

The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the world, and…

— H. L. Mencken

England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more directly about…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala