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“India is the one area of the sub-continent where we haven't won since I have been involved with England”

Has Beens Havens Involved Areas India England Continents

Author:Duncan Fletcher

“But the idea of science and systematic knowledge is wanting to our whole instruction alike, and not only to that of our business class ... In nothing do England and the Continent at the present moment more strikingly differ than in the prominence which is now given to the idea of science there, and the neglect in which this idea still lies here; a neglect so great that we hardly even know the use of the word science in its strict sense, and only employ it in a secondary and incorrect sense.”

Knows Stills Ideas Whole Moments Use Science Lying Given Education Class England Present Moment Neglect Instruction Continents Strict Systematic Prominence

Book:The Works of Matthew Arnold

Source: The Works of Matthew Arnold

“The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling for himself, to gather competence or wealth. The expansion of New France was the achievement of a gigantic ambition striving to grasp a continent. It was a vain attempt.”

Growth Wealth Results Effort Achievement Ambition England Strive Busy Circles France Vain Continents Multitudes Expansion Competence New England Toiling

Book:Pioneers of France in the New World

Source: Pioneers of France in the New World

“The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world.”

World Suffering England Continents Workshops

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities.”

Stills Gone Saws England Distance Ruins Continents Atrocities Pilgrimage Blitz

Author:Cynthia Ozick

“In my early teens, I read every bound volume of the magazine Punch. Every writer of any distinction in the English language, and I mean including America and England, at some time wrote for Punch. Jerome K. Jerome, who wrote Three Men In A Boat, I loved. I was very impressed when I read a piece by Mark Twain in Punch, and realized that despite the fact that they were on different continents, Jerome K. Jerome and Mark Twain had the same kind of laconic, laid-back, "The human race is damn stupid, but quite interesting" attitude. They were almost talking with the same voice.”

“England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.”

Europe India England West France Continents Rivals West Indies

Book:Epochs of American History

Source: Epochs of American History

“There is no nation on the continent of Europe that is less able to do harm to England, and there isno nation on the continent of Europe to whom we are less able to do harm, than Russia.We are so separate that it seems impossible that the two nations, by the use of reason or common sense at all, could possibly be brought into conflict with each other.”

Two Reason Use Seems Able Nations Common Impossible Conflict Europe England Harm Russia Common Sense Continents Two Nations

Author:John Bright

“On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.”

People Food England Tables Cooking Manners Culinary Continents Good Manners Good Food Table Manners

Author:George Mikes

“It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the European mind." The author of the remark probably meant to assert that a man or a system may have become famous on the continent, while we are almost ignorant of the name of the man and the claims of his system. Perhaps, however, a wider range might be given to the assertion. An exploded theory or a disadvantageous practice, like a rebel or a patriot in distress, seeks refuge on our shores to spend its last days in comfort if not in splendour.”

Source: The Conflict of Studies and Other Essays on Subjects Connected with Education

“British ferries have stopped transporting live animals to the Continent. This has made it very difficult for England fans to get to Away matches.”

Made Difficult Animal Fans England British Made It Continents Ferry

Author:Jo Brand

“England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in the rest of the world want to buy. And if it hadn't been separated from the continent by water, it almost certainly would have been lost to Hitler's ambitions.”

People Ifs World Want Has Beens House Lost Water Ambition England Islands Exception Continents

Author:Mitt Romney

“I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.”

Ifs Moving England Wave Australia Los Angeles Continents Plague New Zealand Martians Tidal Waves Bubonic Plague Australia And New Zealand

Author:Russell Crowe

“In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.”

Mean America Special Europe Claims England Owners Continents Beard England And America

Author:Rebecca West

“I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.”

Stills Social Position England Institutions Continents Social Institutions Better Woman

Author:Andrew Eldritch