Cardboard boxes Quote by Walter Lord

“Oh, to be in England, now that England’s gone. This World Service, this little bakelite gateway into the world of Sidney Box, Charters and…

— Stephen Fry

“of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have…

— Charles Dickens

“The English could bring into this tight area four hundred and forty-eight thousand soldiers, but they could not find space in their ships for…

— James A. Michener

“Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. Especially seeing England presents thee with so many…

— W.G. Hoskins

“Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“I have always been sure that if England were ever occupied its people would find the organization of underground cells an almost effortless means…

— Geoffrey Household

“had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more…

— Charles Dickens

“Poor England. Too much history for its acreage. Years grow inwards here, like my toenails.”

— David Mitchell

“It was like bouncing tennis balls off a mystery piece of furniture and deducing, from the direction in which the balls ricocheted, whether it…

— Marcus Chown

“the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human”

— Charles Dickens

“Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns.”

— Charles Krauthammer

“theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects…

— Charles Dickens