England Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray Download Open image “It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.” — William Makepeace Thackeray ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare England Middle class Safety
I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England. — Jilly Cooper Copy Share Image
Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be? — Francesca Annis Copy Share Image
Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As regards this country, in which protection has always to some extent existed, it is the best customer that England ever had, and our… — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. Thesequalities characterize the middle classes in every country, but in England they are national characteristics. — Edward Morgan Forster Copy Share Image
The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive - no version of themselves or their habits as anything… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
To remedy the frequent distresses of the common people, the poor laws of England have been instituted; but it is to be feared that… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
England is very regimented. Go to work, come home from work, go to the pub. — Tricky Copy Share Image
Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“To those great geniuses now in petticoats, who shall write novels for the beloved reader's children, these men and things will be as much… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness, shall follow… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell.… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I didn't want to do 'Fashion Police' because I thought, 'This is stupid, this is beneath me, who wants to talk about fashion?' It… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this; secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too.… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
'Downton Abbey' is my worst nightmare. I just hate that whole 'Upstairs Downstairs' thing, I think it's really lazy and it doesn't represent England,… — Tom Payne Copy Share Image
Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These fledgling democracies in the Middle East, they're actually fighting for their freedom. And what are they rioting for in England? Leisurewear. — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
In the olden days in England, you could be hung for stealing a sheep or a loaf of bread. However, if a sheep stole a loaf of bread and gave it to you, you would only be tried for receiving, a crime punishable by forty lashes with the cat or the dog, whichever was handy. If you stole a dog… — Mike Harding Copy Share