Acquaintance Quote by Anthony Trollope

“Please write and tell me about London, I live for the day when I step off the boat-train and feel its dirty sidewalks under…

— Helene Hanff

“I remember years ago a guy I knew told me that people going to England find exactly what they go looking for. I said…

— Helene Hanff

Boston is actually the capital of the world. You didn't know that? We breed smart-ass, quippy, funny people. Not that I'm one of them.…

— John Krasinski

“This is the part of the country that invokes terrible nostalgia, a morbid and phlegm-induced retrospective of parties, clubs, drugs, shows, people, and is…

— Wesley Eisold

“The opulence of Bedford Square and the British Museum may be only a few hundred yards away, but New Oxford Street runs between there…

— Michel Faber

I promise myself great pleasure from my visit to England. You know I am to stay with Dickens while in London; and beside his…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in…

— George Bernard Shaw

Boston is a state of mind.

— Thomas Gold Appleton

“What fools American can be for England”

— Charles Finch

I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a…

— Stephen Fry

“I remember years ago a guy I knew told me that people going to England find exactly what they go looking for.”

— Helene Hanff

“I’ve always wanted to go to England. I just never thought it would be after I was dead, on a quest, on a bright…

— Rick Riordan