“I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't know what it would be like but I think it would be a rather troublesome distraction to have such a lot of dominating presences, as you call them, about. Fortunately we weren't bothered by each other.” ThinkingKnowsWould BeAmericaPoetryInterestParticularPoetAdvantageEnglandDistractionBotheredTroublesomeDominating Author:T. S. Eliot
“I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England [sic] for having cumulated all his other betrayals of the national interest and honour, by his last terrible exhibition of dishonour, weakness and gullibility. The depths of infamy which our accurst "love of peace" can lower us are unfathomable.” LastsInterestTerribleWeaknessEnglandDepthBetrayalBitterMinistersCursePrimeHonourPrime MinisterSolemnExhibitionsUnfathomableNational InterestsInfamyGullibilityDishonour Author:Enoch Powell
“In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.” WellsInterestPracticeMajorsEnglandRaisedRepresentationObjections Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
“Germany, which has lately united 80 million Germans, has submitted certain neighboring countries to her supremacy and gained military strength in many aspects, and thus has become, as clearly can be seen, a dangerous rival to principal imperialistic powers in Europe - England and France. That is why they declared war on Germany on a pretext of fulfilling the obligations given to Poland. It is now clearer than ever, how remote the real aims of the cabinets in these countries were from the interests of defending the now disintegrated Poland or Czechoslovakia.” WarRealCountryCertainGivenInterestUnitedMillionsMilitaryDangerousEuropeAspectEnglandAimObligationFranceGermanyPrincipalFulfillingRivalsCabinetsSupremacyPolandPretextCzechoslovakia Author:Vyacheslav Molotov
“When I read or hear of the mutual injuries of England and Ireland, I fancy it would have been a blessed thing had the sea never flowed between the two countries. Had they been all in one, surely there would have been more unity between them of interests and of feelings. But let us hope that days of peace and general enlightenment will arrive by ways past man's finding out.” MenWayHas BeensTwoCountryFeelingsPastInterestSeaFindingsEnlightenmentEnglandBlessedUnityFancyInjuryMutualIrelandTwo Countries Book:Memoir and Letters Source: Memoir and Letters
“English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.” MightInterestConversationTraditionEnglandTablesDinnerStrictTopicsDinner TableBanalityAdherence Author:Elspeth Huxley
“By taking out a loan, I am committing myself to years of interest repayments, and therefore to years of wage slavery. And the UK has been borrowing like crazy since 1694, when the Bank of England was invented. This means that we are locked into high taxation to pay for 300 years of wars and other costly and generally disastrous state enterprises.” YearsMeanHas BeensWarStatesInterestPayCrazyEnglandSlaveryEnterpriseLockedTaxationLoanBorrowingRepayment Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“merica was middle-class for the very start - the people who came first were hyper-strivers from England. There were no vested interests, no ranks, no classes, it was very lightly populated, there were unlimited natural resources - for free essentially - if you failed, you could always start over.” PeopleIfsFirstsInterestNaturalClassMiddleResourcesEnglandMiddle ClassUnlimitedStarting OverNatural ResourcesHyperVested InterestsStrivers Author:Charles R. Morris
“Give me a great Champions League game or an exciting Premier League game ahead of an international match and I'd love that to reverse. A lot of people have lost interest in England games, it is quite hard to watch.” PeopleGivingHardGamesLostInterestWatchesExcitingGive MeEnglandInternationalLeagueChampionReversePremier LeagueChampions League Author:Michael Owen
“A lot of people have lost interest in watching England play. To get motivated to watch international football, you need your country to be having some form of success and England haven't had any for a long time now.” PeopleNeedsLongCountryPlayFormLostInterestWatchesHavensFootballLong TimeEnglandInternationalMotivated Author:Michael Owen
“I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America.” CountryStatesAmericaInterestUnitedUnited StatesSubjectsEnglandBritishCanadaManifestCrownsUnited States Of AmericaIdentical Author:Wilfrid Laurier
“At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.” MomentsInterestNovelWrittenSubjectsEnglandExtraordinaryBritishHeightEmpiresSuperpowerBritish Empire Author:Salman Rushdie
“Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this; secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive use of his invention; and thereby added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius, in the discovery and production of new and useful things.” MenCountryUseMightLawScienceNextInterestFireSpecialChangedGeniusDiscoveryAdvantageConstitutionEnglandProductionsInventionFuelAdoptionExclusiveInventorAnother ManPatentsSecuredUseful ThingsLimited TimeDiscovery And InventionPatent Law Author:Abraham Lincoln
“I went to America in the winter of 1872-73, authorised to secure, if I could, the passage of a bill demonetising silver. It was in the interest of those I represented - the governors of the Bank of England - to have it done. By 1873, gold coins were the only form of coin money.” IfsDoneAmericaFormInterestMoneyGoldEnglandBillsWinterSecureIf I CouldSilverPassagesGovernorsCoinsBankersBankers And BanksGold Coins Author:Ernest Seyd
“The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.” ArtInterestEnglandWorks Of ArtImmoralInsulting Book:Miscellanies Source: Miscellanies