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“England is the only civilised country in the world where it is etiquette to fall on the food like a wolf the moment it is served. Elsewhere it is comme il faut to wait until everybody has helped himself to everything and until everything on everybody's plate is stone cold.”

World Country Moments Fall Waiting Cold Stones England Manners Elsewhere Plates Etiquette Civilised Stone Cold

Author:Virginia Graham

“England, where nobody ever says what they mean: and by denying feeling, kill it off stone-cold at the roots.”

Mean Feelings Cold Stones Roots England Stone Cold

Author:Caitlin Thomas

“Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone”

House Solitude Stones England Injured Laurels Platonic

Book:Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012

Source: Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012

“So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are our children; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.”

Giving Children Government America Asks Stones England Towns Our Children Bread Representatives

Author:John Bright

“People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.”

People Country Artist Listening Grew Healthy Scene Grew Up Stones England West Bob Rolling Captains Dylan Rolling Stones Nina Howlin Wolf Captain Beefheart

Author:PJ Harvey

“I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and that's what my dad was into.”

Thinking Kids Dad Stones England My Dad Kink

Author:Slash

“Some archeologists believe that Stonehenge - the mysterious arrangement of enormous elongated stones in England - is actually a crude effort by the Druids to build a computing device.”

Believe Effort Stones England Enormous Mysterious Devices Arrangements Crude Computing Druids Stonehenge

Book:Dave Barry in Cyberspace

Source: Dave Barry in Cyberspace

“Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember hearing She Loves You in August 1963.”

I Can Remember Love You Scene Summer Stones England Hearing Broke Rolling August Rolling Stones

Author:Gordon Lightfoot

“This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,--This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.”

“... He went under the stars, and the tender light of the moon, when it hung like an eyelash and the tree trunks shone like bones. He walked through wind and weather, and beneath sun-bleached skies. It seemed to Harold that he had been waiting all his life to walk. He no longer knew how far he had come, but only that he was going forward. The pale Cotswold stone became the red brick of Warwickshire, and the land flattened into middle England. Harold reached his hand to his mouth to brush away a fly, and felt a beard growing in thick tufts. Queenie would live. He knew it.”

Hands Light Stars Felt Waiting Walks Sun Growing Tree Sky Land Middle Wind Moon Mouths Red Stones England Bones Weather Thick Pale Hung Brushes Bricks Beard Trunks Eyelashes Tree Trunks

Author:Rachel Joyce

“Underneath this little stone Lies Robert Earl of Huntington; No other archer was so good - And people called him Robin Hood. Such outlaws as he and his men Will England never see again.”

People Men Littles Lying Stones England Hood Robins Outlaw Archer Robin Hood

Book:The Adventures of Robin Hood

Source: The Adventures of Robin Hood

“The depressing thing about an Englishman's traditional love of animals is the dishonesty thereof ... Get a barbed hook into the upper lip of a salmon, drag him endlessly around the water until he loses his strength, pull him to the bank, hit him on the head with a stone, and you may well become fisherman of the year. Shoot.the salmon and you'll never be asked again.”

Years Wells May Water Loses Animal Stones England Lips Traditional Drag Depressing Hook Dishonesty Englishmen Insulting Fisherman Salmon

Author:Clement Freud