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“Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is permanently top nation, that foreigners do not matter, and that if the worst comes to the worst, Lord Salisbury will send a gunboat.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Matter Nations Born Lord Worst England Assuming Queens Questioning Foreigners Victoria

Author:Ronald Knox

“Today a Scot is leading a British army in France [Field Marshall Douglas Haig], another is commanding the British Grand Fleet at sea [Admiral David Beatty], while a third directs the Imperial General Staff at home [Sir William Roberton]. The Lord Chancellor is a Scot [Viscount Finlay]; so are the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Foreign Secretary [Bonar Law and Arthur Balfour]. The Prime Minister is a Welshman [David Lloyd George], and the First Lord of the Admiralty is an Irishman [Lord Carson]. Yet no one has ever brought in a bill to give home rule to England!”

“The Lord Chief Justice of England recently said that the greater part of his judicial time was spent investigating collisions between propelled vehicles, each on its own side of the road, each sounding its horn and each stationary.”

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Author:Philip Guedalla

“Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord, That would reduce these bloody days again And make poor England weep in streams of blood! Let them not live to taste this land's increase That would with treason wound this fair land's peace! Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again: That she may long live here, God say amen!”

May Long Book Poor Lord Blood Land Taste Fairs Increase England Edges Wounds Streams Bloody Gracious Traitor Treason Amen

Book:The plays of William Shakespeare

Source: The plays of William Shakespeare

“It isnt only fictional heroes to whom toast means home and comfort. It is related of the Duke of Wellington - I believe by Lord Ellesmere - that when he landed at Dover in 1814, after six years absence from England, the first order he gave at the Ship Inn was for an unlimited supply of buttered toast.”

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Book:A Taste of the Sun

Source: A Taste of the Sun

“Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.”

Wealth Lord Birth England Gentleman Peers Mechanic Antiquity Rakes Impudence

Book:The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe

Source: The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe

“At the head of any new undertaking where in France you would find the government, or in England some great lord, in the United States you are sure to find an association.”

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Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“Can we say that the constitutional monarchies in Spain, Belgium or England are democratic? Those with superior chambers like the House of Lords in England, that still represent the English feudal nobility in terms of positions above regional representatives, who are in the end the representatives supposedly elected by the population. Many mechanisms exist, but they are mechanisms to preserve the power of the wealthy classes, of the bourgeois classes that hold the power and rights above the rest of the society.”

“Satan has control now. No matter where you look, he is in control, even in our own land. He is guiding the governments as far as the Lord will permit him. That is why there is so much strife, turmoil, and confusion all over the earth. One master mind is governing the nations. It is not the president of the United States; it is not Hitler; it is not Mussolini; it is not the king or government of England or any other land; it is Satan himself.”

Source: Doctrines of Salvation: Sermons and Writings

“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.”

World Made States Lost Left Stars Lord Son Kings Succeed Band Garden England Fortune France Crowns Infant Lord Henry France And England

Book:Shakespeare's King Henry V

Source: Shakespeare's King Henry V

“Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.”

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Author:Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“M. J. Putney has created true magic with this book, the kind that comes when you curl up in a comfortable armchair and let the story take your imagination away. Come visit an enchanted eighteenth-century England and meet two desperate lovers caught in the web of a sinister lord with great magical power. Romantic and lyrical, this tale will fill your reading time with pleasure. I loved it.”

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Author:Catherine Asaro

“Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross.”

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Book:Le Morte Darthur

Source: Le Morte Darthur

“Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first: anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England Can advise me like you: be to yourself As you would to your friend.”

Men Way Firsts Self Reason Friendship Lord Like You Horse England Hot Hills Climbs Pace Tire Advise Steep Mettle

Book:Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)