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“A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have little doubt that if, say, Oscar Wilde had lived into his nineties, instead of dying in his forties, he would have been considered a benign, distinguished figure suitable to preside at a school prize-giving or to instruct and exhort scout masters at their jamborees. He might even have been knighted.”

Source: The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge

“Pakistan would be confident after their series win over England. The series will be a very close and good contest and if all the players play to their potential we're in for some wonderful cricket.”

Ifs Play Would Be Winning Player Wonderful England Series Contests Pakistan Cricket Be Confident

Author:Greg Chappell

“If King Harold had had swans on his side, England would still be Saxon.”

Ifs Stills Sides Kings England Swans

Book:To Say Nothing of the Dog

Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog

“To do something for someone or something you loved-England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history-wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.”

Ifs Sacrifice Dog Youth Cost England Your Freedom

Author:Connie Willis

“I want to make all Europe and America know it - I want to make England feel her weakness if she refuses to give the justice we the Irish require - the restoration of our domestic parliament.”

Ifs Knows Want Giving Feels America Justice Weakness Europe England Refuse Parliament Restoration Europe And America

Author:Daniel O'Connell

“If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs”

Source: Quotations from James Connolly: An Anthology in Parts

“There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.”

Ifs Stills Country Would Be Black Machines England Ugly Multitudes Manufacturing Famine

Book:Lectures and Essays

Source: Lectures and Essays

“If you want to swim across the English Channel from England to France - you have to leave your doubt on the beach in England.”

Ifs Want Doubt England France Beach Swim

Author:Lewis Gordon

“There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen.”

Ifs Doe Happens Would Be Sports Responsibility Huge England Disaster

Author:Rio Ferdinand

“If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over to England and only half of them by transporting them to Eretz Israel, then I opt for the second alternative.”

Ifs Children Would Be Half England Israel Alternatives Germany

Author:David Ben-Gurion

“For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular.”

Ifs Years Care Church England Catholic Compromise Catholic Church Disillusioned Church Of England

Author:Ann Widdecombe

“I don't have any intentions to return to England. I would go back if I could return as a free person. I don't want to return to prison.”

Ifs Want Persons Return England Prison Intention If I Could

Author:Ronald Biggs

“Let me tell you the following words as if I were showing you the rungs of a ladder leading upward and upward: Herzl; the Zionist Congress; the English Uganda proposition; the future world war; the peace conference where with the help of England a free and Jewish Palestine will be created.”

Ifs World War Helping Let Me England Congress Following War Of The Worlds Propositions Palestine Conferences Ladders Zionist Zionism Uganda Future World

Author:Max Nordau

“I'm sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I'd want to run the show. They were shrewd, because that's exactly what I would have done.”

Ifs Want Done Shows Running Jobs England

Author:Brian Clough

“. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that if they were destroyed . . . old jobs and old ways of life could be preserved . . . At certain times in his life each man is tempted to become a Luddite, for there is always something he would like to go back to. But to be against all change-against change in the abstract-is folly.”

Ifs Men Way Life Jobs Certain Century Theory Machines England Destroyed Abstract Folly Tempted 19th Century Weaving Old Ways Old Job

Author:James A. Michener

“If England was what England seems, An not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an' paint, 'Ow quick we'd chuck 'er! But she ain't!”

Ifs Dream Seems England Paint Our Dreams Chuck Brass

Author:Rudyard Kipling

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