“My ability to persuade my wife to marry me was quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been impossible for any ordinary man to have got through what I had to go through in peace and war without the devoted aid of what we call, in England, one's better half.” MenHas BeensWarCoursesAbilityHalfWifeImpossibleAchievementOrdinaryEnglandMy WifeBrilliantAidsDevotedOrdinary ManMarry MeBetter Half Author:Winston Churchill
“I live in Santa Barbara. My wife's American, and she lived in England for 11 years and then told me she'd had enough.” YearsEnoughWifeEnglandMy WifeSantaHad EnoughBarbaraSanta Barbara Author:Martin Gore
“I regard England as my wife and America as my mistress.” AmericaWifeEnglandRegardMy WifeMistress Author:Cedric Hardwicke
“I met my wife, Jennifer, while sitting next to her on the airplane on the way to England. I was heading to Oxford as a Marshall scholar.” WayNextWifeMetsSittingEnglandMy WifeScholarAirplaneHeadingsOxfordJennifer Author:Derek Kilmer
“I think there's a pride of what a real American can be. I mean, I'm a transplant, but I've got American kids and an American wife, and when I go back to England I feel more like an American, the way I look at the world, is more from an American perspective at this point. I've traveled every state 30 or 40 times, and have met an amazing array of people, and I have found Americans to be among the most kind and tolerant people I have ever met.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayFeelsLooksKindMeanRealStatesKidsFoundWifePerspectivePrideMetsEnglandTraveledTransplants Author:Dave Wakeling
“At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.” AgeSchoolMotherFatherSpeakChurchWifeEnglandCatholicMy WifeProtestantsYiddishChurch Of England Author:Michael Caine
“I've never done a [Berthold] Brecht. In the 1960s when the Berliner Ensemble came over [to England] with Helene Weigel [Brecht's second wife], I saw all the Berlin actors. It was an amazing time, very exciting early 1960s.” DoneActorsSawsWifeExcitingEngland1960sBerlinEnsembleBrecht Author:John Hurt
“We [me and my wife] went back to St. Paul, worked for a year - again, I guess I would have to admit now, doing a rather shaky job of teaching people - but at the end of that year we returned to England and worked in the [Bernard] Leach Pottery for two and a half years.” PeopleYearsTwoEndsJobsHalfWifeTeachingEnglandMy WifePotteryHalf A Year Author:Warren MacKenzie
“We had a wonderful trip, a seven-day trip, talking and sitting in the sun and so forth [with Bernard Leach]. And as we were approaching England, Leach said, "Do you have a place to live?" And we said, "No, we didn't." We hadn't worried about that. But Bernard had just separated from his second wife, which we had not realized, and Bernard was a person who could not stand to live alone. So he said, "Would you like to share my house with me?" Naturally we said yes.” PersonsSaidHouseTalkingSunWifeWonderfulShareSittingEnglandSevenWorriedPlaces To LiveSeven Days Author:Warren MacKenzie
“England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in his fat fists.” LittlesWifeColdKingsSixEnglandLegsKingdomsFatsRememberedChickensFistsRebelliousKing Henry Book:In the Garden of Iden Source: In the Garden of Iden
“When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shakes the shingles from the roofs and sifts through cracks in the plaster. The only green things left are the holly bushes and the old boxwood hedges in the village, and these are often painted white with snow. Chipmunks and weasels come to nest in basements and barns; owls find their way into attics. At night,the dark is blue and bluer still, as sapphire of night.” WayStillsNightLeftDarkWhiteWifeTreeWindColdBedHusbandEnglandBlueGreenSnowIceShakesCracksVillageRoofSheetsTwistsWrapsNestsDecemberHusband And WifeBasementsOwlNew EnglandBarnsAtticsHolliesWeaselsPlastersSapphiresSleetChipmunksShinglesGreen ThingsBare Trees Book:Here On Earth Source: Here On Earth
“England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their trade as nowhere else in the western world.” PeopleWorldBelieveChildrenSoulRealitySufferingBeliefWifeLandMissingFootballSweetBabyFitEnglandTradeWesternDespiteGentleBeatenStrainInsultingWhipsStreaksWestern WorldPuritanLashesScourgeWantonCallousCrunchPlies Author:Colin MacInnes
“Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.” HumorFunnyBeautifulWifeStupidMarriedEnglandBeing MarriedIgnorance Is BlissBeautiful Wife Book:With Malice Toward Some Source: With Malice Toward Some