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“The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.”
Winston Churchill Quotes |
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“Those pigmy tribes of Panton street,
Those hardy blades, those hearts of oak,
Obedient to a tyrant's yoke.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: A Monstrous good Lounge (p. 5)
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“England! my country, great and free!
Heart of the world, I leap to thee!”
Philip James Bailey Quotes Source: Festus (sc. The Surface, l. 376)
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“Let Pitt then boast of his victory to his nation of
shopkeepers--(Nation Boutiquiere).”
Bertrand Barere Quotes Source: said before the National Convention
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“In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the
English.
[Fr., Quoique leurs chapeaux sont bien laids,
Goddam! j'aime les anglais.]”
Bertrand Barere Quotes Source: said before the National Convention
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“This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only
an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at
the same time.”
Aneurin Bevan Quotes Source: in a speech at Blackpool as reported by the "Daily Herald" on May 25, 1945
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“Ah! the perfidious English!
[Fr., Ah! la perfide Angleterre!]”
Jacques Benigue Bossuet Quotes Source: Sermon on the Circumcision, preaching at Metz, quoted by Napoleon on leaving England for St. Helena
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“If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.”
Rupert Brooke Quotes Source: The Soldier
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“Oh, to be in England,
Now that April's there,
And whoever wakes in England
Sees some morning, unaware,
That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf,
Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf
While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
In England--now.”
Robert Browning Quotes Source: Home Thoughts from Abroad
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“The men of England--the men, I mean of light and leading in
England.”
Edmund Burke Quotes Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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“England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a
paradise for horses, hell for women.”
Robert Burton Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. III, memb. 1, subsect. 2)
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“Men of England! who inherit
Rights that cost your sires their blood.”
Thomas Campbell Quotes Source: Men of England
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“Britannia needs no bulwarks
No towers along the steep;
Her march is o'er the mountain wave,
Her home is on the deep.”
Thomas Campbell Quotes Source: Ye Mariners of England
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“In England three are sixty different religions, and only one
sauce.
[It., Il y en Angleterre soizante sectes religieuses differentes,
et une seule sauce.]”
Thomas Campbell Quotes Source: Ye Mariners of England
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“Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the
English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Essays--Richter
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“A certain man has called us, "of all peoples the wisest in
action," but he added, "the stupidest in speech."”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: The Nigger Question
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“Where are the rough brave Britons to be found
With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?”
Mrs. Susannah Centlivre Quotes Source: Cruel Gift
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“Be England what she will,
With all her faults, she is my country still.”
Charles Churchill Quotes Source: The Farewell
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“Bind her, grind her, burn her with fire,
Cast her ashes into the sea,--
She shall escape, she shall aspire,
She shall arise to make men free;
She shall arise in a sacred scorn,
Lighting the lives that are yet unborn,
Spirit supernal, splendor eternal,
England!”
Helen Gray Cone Quotes Source: Chant of Lover for England
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“'Tis a glorious charter, deny it who can,
That's breathed in the words, "I'm an Englishman."”
Eliza Cook Quotes Source: An Englishman
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“England with all thy faults, I love thee still--
My country! and, while yet a nook is left
Where English minds and manners may be found,
Shall be constrained to love thee.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. II, l. 206)
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“Without one friend, above all foes,
Britannia gives the world repose.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: To Sir Joshua Reynolds
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“We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.”
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes Source: The Young Duke (bk. I, ch. XI)
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“Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail,
Our lion now will foreign foes assail.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Astroea Redux (l. 117)
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“In these troublesome days when the great
Mother Empire stands splendidly isolated in Europe.”
Hon. Sir George Eulas Foster Quotes Source: in a speech in the Canadian House of Commons
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