England Quotes - Page 37

• Tea! The English could always be pacified with it!

  Jean Plaidy

  Tea

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• The Princess Elizabeth, of England, was found dead with her head resting on her Bible, open at these words, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." So may we all fall asleep at last when the day's work for Jesus is over, and wake up in heaven to find ourselves in the delicious rest that remaineth for the people of God.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Jesus, Princess, Fall

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 516), 1895.

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• I don't know what the country's coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their betters--mink coats and no manners. No wonder Germany's arming.

  Arthur Wimperis

  Country, War, Class

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• There are two reasons why I propose to make myself thoroughly and unashamedly happy by talking about myself. The first is that on several occasions, both in England and America, I have been told that I am a legendary character.

  Louis J. Mordell

  Character, England And America, Talking

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• Slade was the coolest band in England. They were the kind of guys that would push your car out of a ditch.

  Alice Cooper

  Car, Guy, Band

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• Those who first introduced compulsory education into American life knew exactly why children should go to school and learn to read: to save their souls.... Consistent with this goal, the first book written and printed for children in America was titled Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes in either England, drawn from the Breasts of both Testaments for their Souls' Nourishment.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Education, Spiritual, Children

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• Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Facts, Unlucky

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• The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mind, Cinema, Tests

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• It is best to lay our plans widely in youth, for then land is cheap, and it is but too easy to contract our views afterward. Youths so laid out, with broad avenues and parks, that they may make handsome and liberal old men! Show me a youth whose mind is like some Washington city of magnificent distances, prepared for the most remotely successful and glorious life after all, when those spaces shall be built over and the idea of the founder be realized. I trust that every New England boy will begin by laying out a Keene Street through his head, eight rods wide.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Distance, Ambition, Successful

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU – The Man, The Philosopher & The Trailblazer (Illustrated): Biographies, Memoirs, Autobiographical Books & Personal Letters (Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada…)”, p.932, e-artnow

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• I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface ofthings. We think that that is which appears to be.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Thinking, Vision

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.152

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• Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has rendered an island, almost unknown to the ancients, the
  arbiter of the world? Clearly not. It is the inhabitants that have done this. It is an affair of race.... All is race, there is no other truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Islands, Race

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Tancred: Or, The New Crusade”, p.169

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• The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams, through the empty-seats epoch of Don Buddin and Willie Tasby and unto the decades of Carl Yastrzemski and Jim Rice, the ballpark is the star. A crazy-quilt violation of city planning principles, an irregular pile of architecture, a menace to marketing consultants, Fenway Park works. It works as a symbol of New England's pride, as a repository of evergreen hopes, as a tabernacle of lost innocence. It works as a place to watch baseball.

  Martin Nolan

  Baseball, Stars, Quilts

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• England is the first country that I've had a no. 1 album in, so it is now officially my home away from home.

  Justin Timberlake

  Country, Home, Albums

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• I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.

  Steven Spielberg

  America, Film, Made

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Always in England if you had the type of brain that was capable of understanding T.S. Eliot's poetry or Kant's logic, you could be sure of finding large numbers of people who would hate you violently.

  D. J. Taylor

  Hate, Numbers, People

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• I doubt if 5% of professing Christians in America are born again-and that's true of England!

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, America, Doubt

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• When you cut it up, put the pieces in your mouth and swallowed them, the British hamburger shaped itself to the bottom on your stomach like ballast, while interacting with your gastric juices to form an incipient belch of enormous potential, an airship which had been inflated in a garage. This belch, when silently released, would cause people standing twenty yards away to start examining the soles of their shoes. The vocalized version sounded like a bag of tools thrown into a bog.

  Clive James

  Funny, Cutting, Shoes

  Clive James (1991). “Falling Towards England: (Unreliable Memoirs Continued)”, Isis Large Print Books

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• England, so long mistress of the sea, Where winds and waves confess her sovereignty, Her ancient triumphs yet on high shall bear And reign the sovereign of the conquered air.

  Thomas Gray

  Air, Wind, Sea

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• There is some evidence that average wave heights are slowly rising, and that freak waves of eighty or ninety feet are becoming more common. Wave heights off the coast of England have risen an average of 25 percent over the past couple of decades, which converts to a twenty-foot increase in the highest waves over the next half century. One cause may be the tightening of environmental laws, which has reduced the amount of oil flushed into the oceans by oil tankers.

  Sebastian Junger

  Couple, Ocean, Past

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• An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England.

  William Shakespeare

  World, France, Traitor

  William Shakespeare (2007). “Henry V (Shakespeare Library Classic)”, p.156, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Now the time is come,
  That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest,
  And let her head fall into England's lap.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Victory, Lap

  William Shakespeare (1840*). “The Works of Shakspeare; from the Text of the Standard Edition by Isaac Reed”, p.468

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• Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen!
  Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head!
  Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood;
  Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, War, Archer

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Isaac Reed (1801). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: Henry VI, pts. II-III. Dissertation, &c. Richard III”, p.487

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• Now all the youth of England are on fire,
  And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies;
  Now thrive the armorers, and honor's thought
  Reigns solely in the breast of every man.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, War, Men

  'Henry V' (1599) act 2, chorus, l. 1

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• However, you have to recognize that regulations will never be completely successful and they will always be full of holes. You must constantly be ready to fill new holes. Actually regulation should be kept to a minimum, but there has to be some cooperation between market participants and authorities - as was the case in the early postwar years. The Bank of England was a very successful regulator by cooperating with market participants. This cooperative spirit was broken by the market fundamentalists.

  George Soros

  Successful, Years, Broken

  "'The Economy Fell off the Cliff'". Interview with Mathias Müller von Blumencron, Gregor Peter Schmitz and Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. November 24, 2008.

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• At 78 years old, I am not surprised at much anymore. Germany has taken divergent positions before, so has France, so has England, so has the US.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Taken, Years, Divergent

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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