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I hope for nothing in this world so ardently as once again to see that paradise called England. I long to embrace again all my old friends there.Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany. Quoted in The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici by Christopher Hibbet, page 292.
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Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany. Quoted in The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici by Christopher Hibbet, page 292.
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Non Angli sed Angeli Not Angles but Angels.Pope Gregory I, commenting on the beauty of English captives exposed for sale in Rome.
— England beauty
An Englishman hath three qualities, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his friend, nor to be dared by any.John Lyly, Euphues and his England 16th century.
— England love
Continental people have sex lives; the English have hot-water bottles.George Mikes, How to be an Alien.
— England people
To be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.Ogden Nash, England Expects.
— England man
Quoique leurs chapeaux sont bien laids, Goddam! jaime les anglais.In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English. Pierre-Jean de Béranger.
— England love
Ah! la perfide Angleterre!Ah! the perfidious English! Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Sermon on the Circumcision, preached at Metz. Quoted by Napoleon on leaving England for St. Helena.
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Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Sermon on the Circumcision, preached 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 theres 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 Englands, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.Robert Brooke, The Soldier.
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Oh, to be in England, Now that Aprils 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, Home Thoughts from Abroad.
— England war
Men of England! who inherit Rights that cost your sires their blood.Thomas Campbell, Men of England.
— England men
Britannia needs no bulwarks No towers along the steep; Her march is oer the mountain wave, Her home is on the deep.Thomas Campbell, Ye Mariners of England.
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Il y a en Angleterre soizante sectes religieuses différentes, et une seule sauce.In England there are sixty different religions, and only one sauce. Marquis Caraccioli.
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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, The Nigger Question.
— England people
Be England what she will, With all her faults, she is my country still.Charles Churchill, The Farewell.
— England church
Tis a glorious charter, deny it who can, Thats breathed in the words, Im an Englishman.Eliza Cook, An Englishman.
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Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose.William Cowper, To Sir Joshua Reynolds.
— England world
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail, Our lion now will foreign foes assail.John Dryden, Astræa Redux, line 117.
— England will
Hearts of oak are our ships, Jolly tars are our men, We always are ready, steady, boys, steady, Well fight and will conquer again and again.David Garrick, Hearts of Oak.
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Wake up England.King George V., when Prince of Wales. Speech at Guildhall after a trip around the world.
— England world
He is an Englishman! For he himself has said it, And its greatly to his credit, That hes an Englishman!
— England self
The English race is the best at weeping and the worst at laughing. The English take their pleasures sadly.
— England sad
What have I done for you, England, my England? What is there I would not do, England, my own?William Ernest Henley, England, My England.
— England you
His home!—the Western giant smiles, And turns the spotty globe to find it;— This little speck the British Isles? Tis but a freckle,—never mind it.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., A Good Time Going.
— England time
Old England is our home and Englishmen are we, Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag on every sea.Mary Howitt, Old England is Our Home.
— England men
Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.Rudyard Kipling, English Flag.
— England ya
Winds of the World give answer! They are whimpering to and fro— And what should they know of England who only England know?—Rudyard Kipling, English Flag.
— England world
Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enrolld, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?Alexander Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle to Addison, line 53.
— England war
Dieu et mon droit.God and my right. Password of the day given by Richard I, to his army at the battle of Gisors. In memory of the victory it was made the motto of the royal arms of England.
— England god
Password of the day given by Richard I, to his army at the battle of Gisors. In memory of the victory it was made the motto of the royal arms of England.
— England memory
The martial airs of England Encircle still the earth.Amelia B. Richards, The Martial Airs of England.
— England art
There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.George Bernard Shaw, The Man of Destiny.
— England men
To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a nation of customers may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, Volume II, Book IV, Chapter VII, Part III.
— England art
There is no land like England, Whereer the light of day be; There are no hearts like English hearts, Such hearts of oak as they be; There is no land like England, Whereer the light of day be: There are no men like Englishmen, So tall and bold as they be! And these will strike for England, And man and maid be free To foil and spoil the tyrant Beneath the greenwood tree.Alfred Tennyson, Foresters, Song.
— England art
First drink a health, this solemn night, A health to England, every guest; That mans the best cosmopolite, Who loves his native country best. May Freedoms oak forever live With stronger life from day to day; That mans the true Conservative Who lops the moulderd branch away.Hands all round!God the tyrants hope confound! To this great cause of Freedom drink, my friends, And the great name of England round and round.Alfred Tennyson, Hands all around. In Memoirs of Tennyson by his son, Volume I, p. 345.
— England love
A shopkeeper will never get the more custom by beating his customers, and what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation.Josiah Tucker, Four Tracts on Political and Commercial Subjects. The words are said to have been used by Dr. Tucker, in a sermon, some years before they appeared in print.
— England words
Josiah Tucker, Four Tracts on Political and Commercial Subjects. The words are said to have been used by Dr. Tucker, in a sermon, some years before they appeared in print.
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In every war England wins one battle. The last one.Eleftherios Venizelos on his belief that the Allies would win in WWI.
— England war
Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.Voltaire, Description of the English Nation.
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Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?Oscar Wilde, Ave Imperatrix.
— England men

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