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“England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.”

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Author:Stephen Daldry

“In England if something goes wrong--say, if one finds a skunk in the garden--he writes to the family solicitor, who proceeds to take the proper measures; whereas in America, you telephone the fire department. Each satisfies a characteristic need; in the English, love of order and legalistic procedure; and here in America, what you like is something vivid, and red, and swift.”

Ifs Needs Writing America Order United States Fire Red Garden England Characteristics Department Telephones Vivid Procedures Solicitors Fire Department English Love

Book:Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

Source: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

“I would love this place to be my garden. (on Arsenal's old stadium)”

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Author:Thierry Henry

“I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, "If wet, in the library." Who could say that this is bad?”

Ifs Hands Dies My Own Sitting Garden England Add Library Glasses Chairs Wet Ipods Endgame Brandy Sitting In A Chair

Author:Terry Pratchett

“in that small [time] most greatly lived this star of England: Fortune made his sword, By which the world's best garden he achiev'd And left it to his son imperial lord. Henry the Sixth, in infant bands crown'd King of France and England did this King succeed; Whose state so many of had the managing, That they lost France and made his England bleed.”

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Book:Shakespeare's King Henry V

Source: Shakespeare's King Henry V

“Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go out, and start their working lives By grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives.”

Men Made Path Wonderful Broken Singing Sitting Garden England Dinner Live By Weed Shade Knives Better Man Working Life

Author:Rudyard Kipling