Bishops Quote by William of Malmesbury

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself.…

— William Shakespeare

We can safely make one prophecy: whatever the outcome of this war, the British Empire is at an end. It has been mortally wounded.…

— Adolf Hitler

Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred…

— Robert Falcon Scott

“O, let us pay the time but needful woe, Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs. This England never did, nor never shall,…

— William Shakespeare

It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.

— Alfred Douglas

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

— Beatrice Webb

“this very year last past (supernaturally deficient in originality) rapped out theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to…

— Charles Dickens

It has been said that the people of this country are deeply interested in the humanitarian and philanthropic considerations involved in [the Eastern Question].…

— Benjamin Disraeli

We can safely make one prophecy: whatever the outcome of this war, the British Empire is at an end. It has been mortally wounded.…

— Adolf Hitler

The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate,…

— Winston Churchill

If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the…

— Benjamin Disraeli