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“I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me.”

Kind Has Beens Kids Age Serious Beats England Notes East London Boxing Canada Twelve Accents Taunting Cockneys East London

Author:Lennox Lewis

“It is well known that we fight in God's cause... but unless God helps us by a miracle the English, who have faster and handier ships than ours, and many more long-range guns, and who know their advantage just as well as we do, will never close with us at all, but stand aloof and knock us to pieces with their culverins, without our being able to do them any serious hurt. So we are sailing against England in the confident hope of a miracle.”

Knows Wells Long Helping Able Fighting Causes Hurt Known Pieces Serious Gun Advantage Miracle England Ships Faster Range Sailing Well Known God Help Aloof God Help Us

Author:Nicholas Rodger

“The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.”

Change Serious England Seriousness February New England Puritanism

Author:Joseph Wood Krutch

“In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.”

Years Done Action Time Century Serious Ought Comfortable Perception England Rely Fifty Rely Upon Lag Intervening

Author:H. G. Wells

“In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.”

People Country America Serious Concerned England Practicals Germany Phenomenon

Book:Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

“Of course, the underlying structure of everything in England is posh. There is no in-between with these people. You have to walk a mile to find a telephone booth, but when you find it, it is built as if the senseless dynamiting of pay phones had been a serious problem at some time in the past. And a British mailbox can presumably stop a German tank.”

People Ifs Problem Past Courses Walks Pay Serious Built England Structure Phones British Miles Telephones Tanks Posh Mailboxes

Author:Neal Stephenson

“I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.”

“In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.”

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial and industrial associations in which all take part, but others of a thousand different types-religious, moral, serious, futile, very general and very limited, immensely large and very minute....At the head of any new undertaking, where in France you would find the government or in England some territorial magnate, in the United States you are sure to find an association.”

Source: Democracy in America

“In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.”

Men Trying Enough Beautiful Loses Rights Produce Serious Citizens England Insulting

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)