England Quotes - Page 23

• In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it never had before. You took the fact that the monarch was head of the Church of England to mean that the British monarchy was itself a religious or moral institution and the monarchy became a symbol of national public morality.

  David Starkey

  Religious, Mean, Church

  "What do the cards hold for British royalty?". www.cnn.com. August 19, 1996.

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• We [England] have become all Billy Big Time and become too big for our boots, and yet we have got nothing to shout about

  Terry Butcher

  Boots, Bigs

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• They always lose when it matters (getting it wrong about England in the rugby world cup final 2003).

  Bernard Laporte

  Finals, World, Matter

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• Nowhere in the world do supporters love their clubs more than in England. England is paradise to play in.

  Arjen Robben

  Play, World, Paradise

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• I'm not jumping on the Andy Johnson for England bandwagon - I'm driving it!

  Iain Dowie

  Jumping, Driving, Bandwagon

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• I'd desperately love England to beat the Australians.

  Stuart Law

  Beats

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• The standard has gone up, whether that's down to the split divisions or more professionalism. People are raising the bar and wanting to emulate the England team.

  Stuart Law

  Team, People, Bars

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• It was fantastic for me to see the cheering and clapping and it showed maybe not all of them want me out of a job!

  Sven-Goran Eriksson

  Jobs, Cheer, Want

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• Every manager dreams of a job like this [the England job] and I will be sure to learn English within one month.

  Fabio Capello

  Dream, Jobs, Months

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• If Shane Warne were to become England spin bowling coach I think it would be fantastic for myself and all those learning to bowl spin in England.

  Monty Panesar

  Thinking, Would Be, Bowling

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• O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm Of green days telling with a quiet beat.

  Arthur Quiller-Couch

  Heart, Green, Quiet

  'Ode upon Eckington Bridge'

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• Some of the best lessons come from a bad day and there's a few we can learn from today.

  Greg Chappell

  Bad Day, Lessons, Today

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• In the last few days when I was not even the manager of England my freedom was taken away from me and that is not the coaching I am used to.

  Luiz Felipe Scolari

  Taken, Coaching, Lasts

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• Harmy is a class bowler and I think he's one of the main reasons why England have improved over the last 18 months.

  Glenn McGrath

  Thinking, Class, Lasts

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• India is the one area of the sub-continent where we haven't won since I have been involved with England

  Duncan Fletcher

  India, Continents, Areas

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• The England manager job is not for me - I'm very happy wih what I'm doing in French football for now.

  Gerard Houllier

  Football, Jobs, Very Happy

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• Do you feel it's right for the England Captain to avoid his media duties?

  Garth Crooks

  Media, Captains, Duty

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• I believe that the Union Flag should change now to reflect the four nations of the United Kingdom - England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales

  Ian Lucas

  Believe, Scotland, Flags

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• The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border.

  Goldwin Smith

  Scotland, Kingdoms, Borders

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, author by Hunter, Rose

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• Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Swim, Flags

  Statement at Rochefort, July 1815.

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• In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected middle-class home, with labour ended, the table spread, goodness all around, the lost ones restored, hymnody incessant.

  Matthew Arnold

  Home, Lost Ones, Class

  Matthew Arnold (1874). “Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible”, p.378

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• George Bernard Shaw of England stopped over just long enough to make one speech in Bombay, India, started a war and 100 Indians killed each other. That's what I call good speech-making. The only enthusiasm any of our speakers can rouse is a demand to kill the speaker.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, War, Long

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• The whole trouble with the Republicans is their fear of an increase in income tax, especially on higher incomes. They speak of it almost like a national calamity. I really believe if it come to a vote whether to go to war with England, France and Germany combined, or raise the rate on incomes of over $100,000, they would vote war.

  Will Rogers

  War, Believe, France

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• But the idea of science and systematic knowledge is wanting to our whole instruction alike, and not only to that of our business class ... In nothing do England and the Continent at the present moment more strikingly differ than in the prominence which is now given to the idea of science there, and the neglect in which this idea still lies here; a neglect so great that we hardly even know the use of the word science in its strict sense, and only employ it in a secondary and incorrect sense.

  Matthew Arnold

  Education, Lying, Science

  Matthew Arnold, George William Erskine Russell, Thomas Burnett Smart (1904). “The Works of Matthew Arnold”

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• The Gaelic League is founded not upon hatred of England, but upon love of Ireland. Hatred is a negative passion; it is powerful - a very powerful destroyer; but it is useless for building up. Love, on the other hand, is like faith; it can move mountains, and faith, we have mountains to move.

  Douglas Hyde

  Powerful, Moving, Passion

  Douglas Hyde (1986). “Language, lore, and lyrics: essays and lectures”, Irish Academic Pr

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