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.

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.

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 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...

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.

England have obviously gone a different route because they have a tremendous physical team. With Wales we couldn’t do the same sort of thing so we reacted differently. I guess it was the input of...

Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again,...

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.

Ultimately, the purpose of magic is to free our potential, not bind us to ideas.

It’s the great masterwork of Anglo-Saxon England and everything else flows from that.

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

We achieved such a lot in England with the school dinners campaign. Could we do the same in the States? Absolutely.

England set some benchmarks during the Ashes series which we can all aspire to and hopefully improve on and one of those notions is support staff around the team and we have been discussing that…...

It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country’s regard for law is to notice what arms the officers of the law are carrying: in England it is little...

They’ve done well there, last time they beat Pakistan. England have shown this summer that they have got the personnel.

The days draw out, the weather gets warmer, and it’s what we call summer, with a bitter laugh when we’ve said it.

OxfordIt is well that there are palaces of peaceAnd discipline and dreaming and desire,Lest we forget our heritage and ceaseThe Spirit’s work—to hunger and aspire:Lest we forget that we were born divine,Now tangled in red...

Now, I have always wanted to agree with Lady Bracknell that there is no earthly use for the upper and lower classes unless they set each other a good example. But I shouldn’t pretend that...

From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can’t speak a word of it now.

I’m glad to be eating the bread of freedom even if it does taste like sponge buttered with greasy salt.

(New England) has a great group of guys and we’ve been successful. Also to have a little bit of personal success has been nice,

I’m over-industrious, so I don’t feel quite such a deviant in America as I did in England.

As long as you know ‘to let’ means to rent and not a place to pee, you’re all set to travel in the UK. The lifts and the boots and everything else don’t really matter.