652 Quotes About England
- Author Rudyard Kipling
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Take of English earth as muchAs either hand may rightly clutch.In the taking of it breathePrayer for all who lie beneath.Not the great nor well-bespoke,But the mere uncounted folkOf whose life and death is noneReport or lamentation.Lay that earth upon thy heart,And thy sickness shall depart!
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- Author William Wordsworth
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These hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines / Of sportive wood run wild
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- Author Kellyn Roth
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Most of my money remains in England, although my unworthy carcass may not under usual circumstances ...
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- Author Jon Stewart
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No one is better at not beating America than England.
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- Author Dave Gorman
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Can you imagine the reaction of a British tabloid newspaper if they found a small school in rural England hosting a party like this? A party? In a school? With children present? Where marijuana is openly smoked? And comdoms are given away at the door?Imagine the headlines! How much would the Daily Mail hate this? How much would the Daily Mail love to hate this?!
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- Author Chris Cleave
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on a bike ride through the Surrey Lanes, pedalling in my cotton dress through the hot fields blushing with poppies, freewheeling down a sudden dip into a cool wooded sanctum.
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- Author Katharine McGee
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Malgré deux cents ans de paix avec l’Angleterre, boire du thé était toujours considéré par les Américains comme un acte de haute trahison, à tel point que le palais refusait d’en servir. On n’y trouvait que du café, pourtant lui aussi importé.
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- Author John le Carré
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There comes a moment for all of us when our childhood ceases to be an excuse. In your case, I would say that, as with many English, the moment is somewhat delayed.
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- Author John Osborne
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Although at the age of twenty-eight I had become preposterously famous, I was still partially gagged by the indoctrination of aggrieved lower-middle-class humility. In my work I had not dissembled, I was sure of that, but the nagging inheritance of 'Who do you think you are?' is hard to drown out in the presence of those who seem to have an ironclad awareness of who they are.
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