English History Quotes
11 English History quotes by 11 unique authors
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The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going…
— Gertrude Himmelfarb
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The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.
— Margaret Halsey
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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
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English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything…
— Malcolm Bradbury
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There is no other Parliament like the English. For the ordinary man, elected to any senate, from Perisa to Peru, they may be a certain…
— Josiah Wedgwood
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English history consists largely of royal people getting their heads chopped off...Needless to say, this brand of history was a hit with our son.
— Dave Barry
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It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real…
— Peter Ackroyd
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The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books.…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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I was never particularly academic, so it was no great surprise when I failed my 11-plus and consequently went to Wibsey Secondary Modern. I did…
— Kiki Dee
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From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and…
— Albert Bushnell Hart
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Thus I have maintained by English history, that in proportion as the press has been free, English government has been secure.
— Thomas Erskine
Who Wrote These English History Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 11 English History Quotes as follows: