“The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies.” PeopleHas BeensMadeStillsReasonStoriesFilmGivenClassSuccessfulWrittenIndustryEnglandWake UpVarietyShockWorking ClassFilm IndustrySuccessful Work Author:Stephen Daldry
“If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar.” IfsWayNaturalWrittenExampleStudentsSeasonsEnglandFruitCompanionApologyPaleDesksBetter PlaceScholarshipRiflesNew EnglandSaddlesOar Book:Letters of Francis Parkman Source: Letters of Francis Parkman
“In England Giordano Bruno had given lectures on the plurality of worlds, and in that country had written, in Italian, his most important works. It added not a little to the exasperation against him, that he was perpetually declaiming against the insincerity, the impostures, of his persecutors - that wherever he went he found skepticism varnished over and concealed by hypocrisy; and that it was not against the belief of men, but against their pretended belief, that he was fighting; that he was struggling with an orthodoxy that had neither morality nor faith.” MenWorldLittlesImportantCountryFightingFoundBeliefGivenStruggleWrittenAtheismMoralityEnglandPositive AtheismHypocrisyWorking ItItalianSkepticismLecturesOrthodoxyConcealedInsincerityImportant WorkExasperation Author:John William Draper
“All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English; now I write as if I were American. You take other peoples backgrounds and characters; Keats called it negative capability.” IfsWritingBookCharacterWrittenNegativeEnglandBackgroundsIndianCapability Author:Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
“Those who first introduced compulsory education into American life knew exactly why children should go to school and learn to read: to save their souls.... Consistent with this goal, the first book written and printed for children in America was titled Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes in either England, drawn from the Breasts of both Testaments for their Souls' Nourishment.” ShouldFirstsChildrenBookSoulSchoolAmericaSpiritualGoalEducationWrittenEnglandConsistentBreastsMilkTestamentBostonPrintedNourishmentBabeAmerican LifeCompulsoryCompulsory Education Author:Dorothy H Cohen
“The service in L.A. is the best. You don't get sarcastic, surly, fed-up waiters and waitresses like you do in England. They're good at their job and they're there for the customer. The only depressing thing is a lot of them have written more screenplays than me.” JobsWrittenLike YouEnglandCustomersSarcasticFedsDepressingScreenplaysWaiterFed UpWaitressSurly Author:Ricky Gervais
“We know that England is crying for a leader, and that leader has emerged in the person of the greatest Englishman I have ever known, Sir Oswald Mosley... When the history of Europe comes to be written I can assure you that his name will not be second to either Mussolini or Hitler.” KnowsPersonsI CanNamesKnownLeaderWrittenCryEuropeEnglandEnglishmen Author:William Joyce
“England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked during the First World War I love it.” WorldFirstsWarYoungWrittenEnglandWar Of The WorldsWorld War IShellsShockedFirst World WarScotsmen Author:Ian Hislop
“The difference between America and England is that the English think 100 miles is a long distance and the Americans think 100 years is a long time. The difference between an autobiography and an unauthorized biography is like the difference between an account of your life written by your mother and one written by your mother-in-law.” ThinkingYearsLongAmericaLawMotherDifferencesWrittenLong TimeAccountsEnglandDistanceMilesAutobiographyBiographiesIn-lawsLong DistanceMother In Law Author:Marilyn vos Savant
“It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the paltry abridgements used at preparatory schools in England.” BelieveMayHas BeensBookSchoolUsedFoundLanguageI BelieveWrittenInformationEnglandHistoricalValuableExaggerationSanskrit Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“I have written millions of words about contemporary England - in journalism. Why don't I take it as the background for a novel? I may do one day. But the simple answer is that it does not excite the novelistic part of my brain; it does not fire it up.” MayDoeSimpleAnswersBrainMillionsNovelFireWrittenOne DayEnglandBackgroundsContemporaryJournalism Author:Sebastian Faulks
“I was doing a play in New York, which we had done in New Haven, Connecticut. It was an American premiere of a play called The Changing Room written by a wonderful man named David Story. It was about a rugby team in the North of England. It got just screaming rave reviews. At that time, virtually every major critic went up to the Long Wharf Theater to see a new play like that.” MenLongDonePlayStoriesRoomsWonderfulWrittenTeamHavensNew YorkMajorsEnglandTheaterCriticsReviewsRugbyPremieresRaveConnecticutWonderful Man Author:Richard Masur
“It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.” Would BeWrittenConstitutionEnglandObjectivesPursueFrivolous Author:Quentin Crisp
“At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.” MomentsInterestNovelWrittenSubjectsEnglandExtraordinaryBritishHeightEmpiresSuperpowerBritish Empire Author:Salman Rushdie
“If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.” IfsWorldReadingQualityKnowledgeWrittenEnglandHistoricalUndertakings Book:Sybil, Or, The Two Nations Source: Sybil, Or, The Two Nations
“Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers think it expedient should be said or written.” ThinkingShouldWritingLittlesSaidWrittenEnglandDiscussionTwelveSay AnythingJuryInsultingShopkeepers Author:A. V. Dicey