English Channel Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

2 English Channel Quotes
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“The Channel is that silver strip of sea which severs merry England from the tardy realms of Europe.”
Unattributed Author Quotes
Source: in the "Church and State Review", Apr. 1, 1863
“Streak of silver sea.”
Lord Robert Arthur Talbot Cecil Salisbury, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury Quotes
Source: quoted from Col. Chesney, who also quoted it, used by Gladstone writing of English Channel