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“I used to hate England because they ruled my country but I am happy they gave us the game of cricket, which they can't play very well, and the English language, which I can't speak very well.”

Wells I Can Country Play Used Hate Games Speak Language England Cricket English Language

Author:Kapil Dev

“England is surrounded by enemies - by real enemies who hate her. Why? Because she tries to be honest; and she tries to be free.”

Trying Real Hate Enemy Honest England Being Honest Hate Her

Author:George Augustus Henry Sala

“The one enemy in the world that America has is England. But then, England is the great land of Christian civilization, and it may not be a thing to be much wondered at that our Americans whom we send to represent us in London become in a short time somewhat civilized, and learn to love those who hate them, bless those that curse them, and do good to those that persecute and calumniate them.”

World May Christian America Hate Enemy Land Civilization England London Curse Civilized Bless Short Time

Book:Rossa's Recollections, 1838 to 1898: Childhood, Boyhood, Manhood. Customs, Habits and Manners of the Irish People. Erinach and Sassenach-Catholic and Protestant-Englishman and Irishman-English Religion-Irish Plunder. Social Life and Prison Life. The Fenian Movement. Travels in Ireland, England, Scotland and America

Source: Rossa's Recollections, 1838 to 1898: Childhood, Boyhood, Manhood. Customs, Habits and Manners of the Irish People. Erinach and Sassenach-Catholic and Protestant-Englishman and Irishman-English Religion-Irish Plunder. Social Life and Prison Life. The Fenian Movement. Travels in Ireland, England, Scotland and America

“New Yorkers always hate LA! I love both cities! I do love the sunshine and the beach after growing up in rainy England.”

Hate Cities Growing Up Growing England Beach Sunshine New Yorkers Rainy

Author:Louise Roe

“I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.”

Bigs Hate Literature Ought I Hate Tragedy England Misery Kicks Hopelessness Resignation

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“Always in England if you had the type of brain that was capable of understanding T.S. Eliot's poetry or Kant's logic, you could be sure of finding large numbers of people who would hate you violently.”

People Ifs Hate Understanding Numbers Brain Type Findings Capable Logic England Hate You Large Numbers Eliot

Author:D. J. Taylor

“Give me 100 men that hate nothing but sin, and love Jesus Christ, and we'll shake England for God.”

Men Giving Hate Jesus Christ Sin Jesus Christ And Love Give Me England Life Changing Shakes Jesus Love God Life Sin And Love

Author:John Wesley

“In England we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.”

People Done Hate Interesting England Engaged Really Interesting Marmite

Author:Eddie Redmayne

“I don't know if you've ever been to England, but as soon as they find out you're from America, they hate you. They just think they're more sophisticated than we are. They're so pissed at us. You know what it is? They're mad because they lost the Revolutionary War, and they should be because there was only like nine of us.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should War America Hate Lost England Mad Nine Revolutionary Sophisticated Hate You Revolutionary War

Author:Jay Mohr

“I love playing football but I am like everyone else, I hate losing and love winning.”

Hate Winning Football Losing And Love I Hate England Playing Football Love Winning

Author:Wayne Rooney

“I have to hear this all the time in England: Well, all Americans are fat and stupid, mm-hm-hm-hm-hm. Really? Well, thanks for sending over the best and brightest to start the party. Maybe we can send a few freaky, Texas, militia, hate-group, gun-toting weirdoes back to your country.”

Wells Country Hate Party Groups Stupid Gun England Fats Thanks Texas Militia Freaky Hate Groups

Author:Greg Proops

“Personally, I prepare exactly the same for every game: I don't think, "I'm going to have to do extra here because of what they think of us." But if you're an England player you do tend to be told how much everyone hates you.”

Ifs Thinking Hate Games Player England Extras Hate You

Author:Ben Morgan

“I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish."”

Said Hate House Grew Grew Up England Bricks Englishmen Bricklayers

Author:Carl Andre

“There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.”

Hate England Jew

Author:Shimon Peres

“I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!”

Hate Dark Air Cold England Iron New England Don't Hate Cold Air

Book:Absalom, Absalom!

Source: Absalom, Absalom!

“The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.”

“Take any country that has laws against hate crimes, inspiring hatred and genocide and so on. The first thing they would do is ban the Old Testament. There's nothing like it in the literary canon that exalts genocide, to that extent. And it's not a joke either. Like where I live, New England, the people who liberated it from the native scourge were religious fundamentalist lunatics, who came waving the holy book, declaring themselves to be the children of Israel who are killing the Amalekites, like God told them.”

“It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they implicitly believe in, merely from the scope it gives to these passions.”

Giving Believe Hate Order Passion Imagination England Raises Believe In Me Scope Insulting

Book:The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte

Source: The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte