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“In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it never had before. You took the fact that the monarch was head of the Church of England to mean that the British monarchy was itself a religious or moral institution and the monarchy became a symbol of national public morality.”

Mean Facts Given Church Religious Moral Century Position Morality England Institutions British Symbols 20th Century Monarchy Monarchs Church Of England British Monarchy

Author:David Starkey

“Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations. I would not for a moment venture to hint that it was a matter of taste; but I think I will go as far as this: that if a position is admittedly unkind, uncomfortable, unnecessary, and superfluously useless, although it were as respectableasthe Church of England, the sooner a man is out of it, the better for himself, and all concerned.”

“Cows in India occupy the same position in society as women did in England before they got the vote. Woman was revered but not encouraged. Her life was one long obstacle race owing to the anxiety of man to put pedestals at her feet. While she was falling over the pedestals she was soothingly told that she must occupy a Place Apart - and indeed, so far Apart did her place prove to be that it was practically out of earshot. The cow in India finds her position equally lofty and tiresome. You practically never see a happy cow in India.”

Men Long Fall Race Feet Position Prove Anxiety Vote India England Obstacles Cows Lofty Pedestal Owing Tiresome

Author:Stella Benson

“But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.”

People Church Position Mets England Extraordinary Arrogance Significance Presumptuous Smugness Church Of England

Author:Rowan Atkinson

“At 78 years old, I am not surprised at much anymore. Germany has taken divergent positions before, so has France, so has England, so has the US.”

Years Taken Position England France Germany Divergent

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“It's hard to get yourself into a position where someone will trust you to direct a film anyway, whatever sex you are. Certainly in England, the film set is a very male preserve. There's a lot of very rough looking men pushing equipment around that don't want the gaffer to be a girl.”

Men Want Hard Film Girl Sex Position Direct England Males Preserves Pushing Rough Equipment Film Set

Author:Colin Firth

“Sometimes you have to play in a position that you may not feel is your best.”

Feels May Sometimes Play Position England

Author:Graeme Souness

“I think there are a number of reasons, not least of which is the personality of the Queen [ Elizabeth II]. It's very easy to underrate her significance. I think she finds the Commonwealth and her position as Head of the Commonwealth infinitely more interesting than being the Queen of England, because she has no significant role in the latter.”

Thinking Reason Easy Interesting Numbers Roles Position Personality England Significant Queens Latter Significance Commonwealth Queen Elizabeth Queen Of England Elizabeth Ii

Author:Bob Hawke

“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.”

“America as a setting seems inexhaustibly fascinating to me, and I think there's something about the outsider viewpoint that works for me. Being of Jewish descent in England always carried a vague sense of being foreign, while not being a practicing Jew made it hard to think of myself as fully Jewish either. So living here in a way just clarifies that terminal outsider position - makes it somehow official, which I like.”

Thinking Way Made Hard Seems America Position England Jew Setting Settings Made It Officials Fascinating Outsiders Vague Viewpoints Descent Terminal

Author:James Lasdun

“In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.”

Kind Literature Position Glory Universal England France Spain

Book:Landmarks in French Literature

Source: Landmarks in French Literature

“I want to say to you who think women cannot succeed, we have brought the government of England to this position, that it has to face this alternative: either women are to be killed or women are to have the vote.”

Thinking Want Government Faces Women Position Succeed Vote England Independent Alternatives International Women's Day International Women Day

Author:Emmeline Pankhurst

“Anyone in England who puts himself forward to be elected to a position of political power is almost bound to be socially or emotionally insecure, or criminally motivated, or mad.”

Political Position England Mad Bounds Motivated Insecure Political Power

Author:Auberon Waugh

“I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.”

Stills Social Position England Institutions Continents Social Institutions Better Woman

Author:Andrew Eldritch