Author Topic: ~ England and the U. K. Quotes ~  (Read 5468 times)

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #45 on: April 23, 2017, 09:59:37 PM »
[highlight-text]I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

Charles Lamb

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« Reply #46 on: April 23, 2017, 10:00:09 PM »
[highlight-text]If I should die think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England.

Rupert Brooke

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« Reply #47 on: April 23, 2017, 10:00:52 PM »
[highlight-text]fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

George Bernard Shaw

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« Reply #48 on: April 23, 2017, 10:02:50 PM »
[highlight-text]Socialism has been preached for so long the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.

Lord Thomson of Fleet

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« Reply #49 on: April 23, 2017, 10:03:54 PM »
[highlight-text]There will always be an England While there's a country lane Wherever there's a cottage small Beside a field of grain.

Clark Ross Parker

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« Reply #50 on: April 25, 2017, 10:01:30 PM »
[highlight-text]One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humour.

Marshall McLuhan

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« Reply #51 on: April 25, 2017, 10:02:39 PM »
[highlight-text]The British are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.

Stephen Leacock

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« Reply #52 on: April 25, 2017, 10:03:35 PM »
[highlight-text]The British are just as keen to make money as the Americans but they prefer hypocrisy to a blatantly commercial attitude.

Wendy Michener

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« Reply #53 on: April 25, 2017, 10:05:54 PM »
[highlight-text]In England I would rather be a man a horse a dog or a woman in that order. In America I think the order would be reversed.

Bruce Gould

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« Reply #54 on: April 25, 2017, 10:06:35 PM »
[highlight-text]Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears prejudices misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.

David Lloyd George

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« Reply #55 on: April 25, 2017, 10:07:29 PM »
[highlight-text]I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

Clement R. Attlee

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« Reply #56 on: April 25, 2017, 10:15:05 PM »
[highlight-text]God save our Gracious King Long live our Noble King God save the King. Send Him victorious Happy and Glorious Long to rule over us God save the King.

Henry Carey

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« Reply #57 on: April 26, 2017, 09:12:35 PM »
[highlight-text]No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British which amazes Americans who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.
Paul Gallico

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« Reply #58 on: April 26, 2017, 09:13:14 PM »
[highlight-text]The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.

Truman Capote

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« Reply #59 on: April 26, 2017, 09:15:02 PM »
[highlight-text]In the end it may well be that Britain will be more honoured by the historians for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

David Ormsby Gore