There is a cunning which we in England call “”the turning of the cat in the pan;”” which is, when that which a man says to another, he lays it as if another had said...

… Mr Jellyband was indeed a typical rural John Bull of those days — the days when our prejudiced insularity was at its height, when to an Englishman, be he lord, yeoman, or peasant, the...

I have a dialect myself; it’s more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It’s half-British, half-Indian.

Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.

We’ve had a tendency to hit a couple of flat spots in the games against England and Italy, … We’ve got away with it so far, but against a side like France we could be...

Far too many people—many of them academics, many politicians—continue to jabber about a supposed ‘special relationship’ between our two countries.I used to think that no such thing existed. Recently, I have become convinced that it...

When the only exorcise you get is running for a bus, get more buses!

We did a (New England Economic Partnership) forecast in October, and we had 16,000 jobs added in 2006. Those are still reasonable (projections) given conditions at national level.

England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare’s muchd message, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr Goebbels. More than either it resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black...

I’m not against England having a foreign manager. But I do want somebody with some passion for the English team and for English pride.

This one has similarities to the storm in late January of 1966. That one produced blizzard conditions over New England and New York, and there also was quite a bit of heavy snow down into...

I expect them (England) to come back hard at us. There is a lot of fight left in them and they are a very competitive unit.

These marvels were great and comfortable ones, but in the old England there was a greater still. The weather behaved itself.In the spring all the little flowers came out obediently in the meads, and the...

I loved the first Christmas I had in England.

In view of the fact he has had previous surgery in this area, his recovery and rehabilitation will be carefully monitored by his specialist and the Gloucester and England medical teams.

‎W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say something similar for periods of time: to understand your own century...

After beating a team like Australia in the Ashes, England underestimated the strength of the Pakistani team.

He’s become the face of a big part of the United States, a big part of the New England fan base and he deserves it. He’s a pro on and off the field, a very...

To try to be at once a Lithuanian yeshiva and a New England prep school: that was the unspoken motto of the Maimonides School of Brookline, Mass., where I studied for 12 years.

As long as it makes Michael Owen happy it is good for me and England. It is a great club and he will play more regularly than he did at Real Madrid and he is...

In England we are sort of very awkward.

These friends – and he laid his hand on some of the books – have been good friends to me, and for some years past, ever since I had the idea of going to London,...

It would be tremendous to have Matthew for our opening matches but it all depends upon what England say.

People in England are so bloody nosy

This wouldn’t go on in New England.

England were the perfect model of a rugby team during that time, … They were accused of being stodgy but in fact they could play any style of game and they would only take out...

I would never play in England in another shirt other than Arsenal’s.

England are lying in wait for us and we will build towards that game through our performances in the autumn. This is not a team that is breaking up. I think we can improve.

The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.

The English winter is long, cold and wet, just like the English summer

If it were not for collectors England would be full, so to speak, of rare birds and wonderful butterflies, strange flowers and a thousand interesting things. But happily the collector prevents all that, either killing...

The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, foul canals, paths of cindery mud criss-crossed by the prints of clogs. This was March, but the weather had been horribly...

Will I return to England? I don’t know. I’ll think it over.

The current crop of England players has yet to make any waves in international rugby,

It’s been difficult for England.

The risks involved in the pursuit of magic are–put simply–either getting frightened by unpleasant perceptions or becoming deluded. Unfortunately it is possible to suffer from both symptoms at the same time.

When we first came out, there were a lot of people, especially in England, who wanted to fight us.

Pettiness often leads both to error and to the digging of a trap for oneself. Wondering (which I am sure he didn’t) ‘if by the 1990s [Hitchens] was morphing into someone I didn’t quite recognize”,...

I knew that Sundays in England aren’t just ordinary dull Sundays, the same the world over, which demand that one simply tiptoe through without disturbing them or paying them the least attention, they are vaster...

In England, there’s so much history that you feel a part of history even when you’re really not,

The team jokes that we’re a dynasty because they say if the New England Patriots won three out of four and they’re a dynasty, then so are we.

I never heard communism seriously propounded or argued; perhaps I was too deeply preoccupied with my own dissipations; and, as it turned out in the end it was a way of thought that I was...

As long as it makes Michael Owen happy then it is good news for England. Newcastle is a great club and he will get to play a lot.

The organist was almost at the end of the anthem’s long introduction, and as the crescendo increases the cathedral began to glitter before my eyes until I felt as if every stone in the building...

Fifteen feet away, the wide River Thames rolled past, dark and deep and mysterious is the sullen-not-quite sunrise.

Believe me I do understand and I am disgusted by the idea that we should aim for any less for a child from a poor background than a rich one.

In fact this is precisely the logic on which the Bank of England—the first successful modern central bank—was originally founded. In 1694, a consortium of English bankers made a loan of £1,200,000 to the king....

Donvel je bio poznat po jagodama, koje su bile izgovor za poziv; ali nikakav izgovor nije bio potreban; ovu damu bi i kupus namamio jer je samo želela da nekuda ide.

In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness.

Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. Especially seeing England presents thee with so many observables.