England Quote by Thomas Day

“ABOUT thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of…

— Jane Austen

“You must be a good girl.”  “Yes, Uncle,” she said.  “A pity, though,” he said. “His assets and mine combined, Cass. Ah, well, Mr. Westhaven will…

— Mary Balogh

“His daughter was valuable to him because she might make him the father-in-law of a Marquis or an Earl; but the higher that he…

— Anthony Trollope

A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and, as I…

— William Shakespeare

In eighteenth-century England, there was a practice of hiring a picturesque hermit who would inhabit the beautiful ruin on your estate. To me it…

— David Grubbs

“What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August 1914! The greater part…

— John Maynard Keynes

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one…

— Miguel De Cervantes

The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Europe.

— John Burns

In times gone by there lived a Count of Ponthieu, who loved chivalry and the pleasures of the world beyond measure, and moreover was…

— Marie de France

Illy [Ray Illingworth] had the man-management skills of Basil Fawlty

— Darren Gough