England Quote by Samuel Johnson

Norway, too, has noble prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which…

— Samuel Johnson

A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.

— Samuel Johnson

Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low?

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The Highland way says it's who you say you love and who you serve, which is of worth. Not some title that is passed…

— Susan Fletcher

“London is good for two things — excellent Scotch and leaving.I miss them both, especially as I often partake of one while doing the…

— Karen Hawkins

NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.

— Ambrose Bierce

The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad levels of…

— James Russell Lowell

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

— David Brainerd

Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

— Arthur Balfour

The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.

— Seneca the Younger

What is it, in your opinion, to be a great nobleman? It is to be master of several objects that men covet, and thus…

— Blaise Pascal

For the weariest road that man may wend Is forth fromn the home of his father.

— Euripides