Time Quote by Ian Matthew Morris

“those parts of the British Isles without the advantage of coal deposits or ports, industrialization was as handicapped as in other countries.”

— Thomas Sowell

I know, I feel, that with the introduction of tobacco England woke up from a long sleep. Suddenly a new zest had been given…

— James M. Barrie

“Today it was commerce that Europe valued and it was the businessmen who, having exploited what the scientists and thechnologits had done for the…

— Stephen Fry

“That world he wanted them to know had vanished as smoke deserts the dying embers that made it.”

— Annie Proulx

“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

“But it was only the twentieth century in Europe that had universal education and the belief in progress - a net gain of knowledge…

— Sebastian Faulks

“Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out…

— Tahir Shah

“There was never enough air in the world, but the shortage was particularly acute in that moment.”

— John Green

If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

“By now there were whole new Industrial Revolutions going on in the Low Earths; the British seemed to have the building of steam engines…

— Stephen Baxter

“It makes me sick,the blindness, deadness, out-of-dateness, stodginess and, yes, sheer jealous malice of the great bulk of England.”

— John Fowles

There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are…

— Goldwin Smith