Quote by David Peace Download Open image ““There are stains on their knees, stains on their arses. Dirty Leeds.”” — David Peace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Where you'd be wearing out the knees of your trousers, sir, they just have to go ahead and wear out their knees!” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“You need to be careful around those posh boys when you go to Oxford. They may seem charming, but they’re not like nice dependable… — Georgiana Derwent Copy Share Image
“Nothing clears the head better than watching a pile of muddy, sweaty Brits trying to break each other’s femurs.” — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“The spectacles of pain and disgrace I see around me, the ignorance, the unthinking vice, the poverty and the lack of hope, and oh, the rain—the rain that falls on England and rots the grain, puts out the light in the man’s eye and the light of learning too, for who can reason if Oxford is a giant puddle and… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share
“England? The worst of all. You know, I do some business there, I have friends in England. Their flats are broken into constantly. The… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team? - Greetings to the New Brunette ” — Billy Bragg Copy Share
“You wake up and for those few seconds, minutes, you forget; forget you are injured; forget you are finished.” — David Peace Copy Share Image
“The success of Liverpool Football Club is no one-man affair. We are a team. We are a working-class team! We have no room for… — David Peace Copy Share Image
“But one of them is that, in everything I do, I hope there will be patent common sense attached to it. Common sense and… — David Peace Copy Share Image
A circus here, a circus there; here today, gone tomorrow. Big Brother watching you. Fear eats the soul. — David Peace Copy Share Image
“Wearing your red scarves, your Liverpool scarves. To support Liverpool Football Club. So I thank you, boys. I thank you. For supporting Liverpool Football… — David Peace Copy Share Image
“No matter how good you think you are or how clever... How many fancy new friends you make on the telly... The reality of… — David Peace Copy Share Image
“Matt Busby smiled again. And Matt Busby said, They have taken you to their hearts, Bill. To their very hearts. Shankly! Shankly! Shankly! Shankly… — David Peace Copy Share Image
“That promotion is satisfactory. Yes, Liverpool Football Club are back in the First Division. Back in the Big League. But that is only where… — David Peace Copy Share Image
“I know you are all disappointed, boys. I know you are all hurt. I can see it in your faces, boys. In every one… — David Peace Copy Share Image
“There will always be times when we get beaten, said Bill Shankly. There will always be times when we lose. But the important thing… — David Peace Copy Share Image
“What this game is all about. Teams. The balance and the combination. Not the individual, not the superstar. Because this is a team game,… — David Peace Copy Share Image
My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'. He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or… — David Peace Copy Share Image
