Quote by Hilary Mantel Download Open image ““What was England, before Wolsey? A little offshore island, poor and cold.”” — Hilary Mantel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Poor England. Too much history for its acreage. Years grow inwards here, like my toenails.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“... "England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“Wolsey sits with his elbows on his desk, his fingers dabbing his closed lids. He takes a great breath, and begins to talk: he begins to talk about England. You can’t know Albion, he says, unless you can go back before Albion was thought of. You must go back before Caesar’s legions, to the days when the bones of giant… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share
“England was alive, throbbing through all her estuaries, crying for joy through the mouths of all her gulls, and the north wind, with contrary… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“England was alive, throbbing through all her estuaries, crying for joy through the mouths of all her gulls, and the north wind, with contrary motion, blew stronger against her rising seas. What did it mean? For what end are her fair complexities, her changes of soil, her sinuous coast? Does she belong to those who have moulded her and made… — E.M. Forster Copy Share
“Cromwell, suppose you’d been away from England for seven years? If you’d been like a knight in a story, lying under an enchantment? You… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The industrial towns were far away, a smudge of smoke and misery hidden by the curve of the earth's surface. Down here it was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“By the early seventies I had become an Englishman – that is to say, I hated England just as much as half of my… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“This was the place that shaped Arthur, this backwater, where the deep British past persisted the way scraps of winter snow last late into… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Nights and days came and passed And summer and winter and the rain. And it was good to be a little Island. A part… — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
“Whatever happens I want you to think of yourselves as young Americans, and I want you to be proud of that. It is difficult… — Carol Ryrie Brink Copy Share Image
“Old England is an imaginary place, a landscape built from words, woodcuts, films, paintings, picturesque engravings. It is a place imagined by people, and… — Helen Macdonald Copy Share Image
People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The hunter is among the most innocent of men; living in the moment makes him feel pure. When he returns in the evening, his… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“But what would happen … I mean, what would be so awful … if they did meet up?” “Why, it would be like the… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
At New Year's he had given Anne a present of silver forks with handles of rock crystal. He hopes she will use them to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The story of my own childhood is a complicated sentence that I am always trying to finish, to finish and put behind me. It… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“He wants to say, because Anne is not a carnal being, she is a calculating being, with a cold slick brain at work behind… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Come to that, don't pay out good money for horoscopes. If things are going to go badly for you, is that what you need… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“But my sins are my strength, he thinks; the sins I have done, that others have not even found the opportunity of committing. I… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Mirabeau: “If you have been told to clear us from this hall, you must ask for orders to use force. We shall leave our… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Cardinal Campeggio has implored Katherine to bow to the king's will, accept that her marriage is invalid and retire to a convent. Certainly, she… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
![“... "England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in the rest of the world want to buy. And if it hadn't been separated from the continent by water, it almost certainly would have been lost to Hitler's ambitions." ~…” quote by Mitt Romney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f22/mitt-romney-268_values-and-virtues_england-sic-is-just-a-small-island-its-r_3171105.jpg)
