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“When I go home to England, my friends all make fun of me for sounding American.”

Home Fun My Friends England

Author:Juno Temple

“I divide my time between homes in Arizona and England, six months a year in each place.”

Years Home Months Six England My Time Divides Six Months Arizona

Author:Terri Windling

“In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected middle-class home, with labour ended, the table spread, goodness all around, the lost ones restored, hymnody incessant.”

Kind States Home Lost Common Class Middle Goodness England Tables Spread Bliss Middle Class Labour Conception Insulting Incessant Lost Ones

Book:Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible

Source: Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible

“England is my home. I could never leave. I'd miss my family and friends too much.”

Home Too Much Missing My Family England Family And Friends

Author:Melanie Brown

“The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land.”

Home Beautiful House Tree Land England Pleasant Tall

Author:Felicia Hemans

“Today a Scot is leading a British army in France [Field Marshall Douglas Haig], another is commanding the British Grand Fleet at sea [Admiral David Beatty], while a third directs the Imperial General Staff at home [Sir William Roberton]. The Lord Chancellor is a Scot [Viscount Finlay]; so are the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Foreign Secretary [Bonar Law and Arthur Balfour]. The Prime Minister is a Welshman [David Lloyd George], and the First Lord of the Admiralty is an Irishman [Lord Carson]. Yet no one has ever brought in a bill to give home rule to England!”

“England was never my home. I had a home there but Dublin is my home so leaving Ireland was the hardest thing I had to do.”

Home England Leaving Hardest Ireland Hardest Thing Dublin

Author:Kevin Kilbane

“England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal family,--and if that family is educated with a sense of responsibility and a sentiment of public duty, it is difficult to exaggerate the salutary influence it may exercise over a nation.”

Ifs Heart May Country Home Nations Difficult Responsibility Influence Duty Exercise England Sacred Educated Sentiments Royal Royal Family Sense Of Responsibility

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches

“Here is one of the points about this planet which should be remembered; into every penetrable corner of it, and into most of the impenetrable corners, the English will penetrate. They are like that; born invaders. They cannot stay at home.”

Should Home Born Planets England Corners Remembered Penetrate Stay At Home Invaders

Author:Rose Macaulay

“Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap.”

Ifs Feels Home Seems Death Used House Language Difficult Differences Church Class England Mice Working Class

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.”

Ifs Thinking Way Should Made Book Home Body Earth Dies Sun Forever Rich Air Fields Flower Rivers England Corners Dust Breathing Bores Concealed

Author:Rupert Brooke

“At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England.”

Home England London Countryside

Author:Hugh Grant

“I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishman's cottage, the King of England could not.”

Thinking Said Home Might Heaven Fate Wind Kings England Englishmen Cottages Orators

Author:John James Ingalls

“All the ideals and beliefs you ever had have crashed about your gun-deafened ears - you don't believe in God or them or the infallibility of England or anything but bloody war and wounds and foul smells and smutty stories and smoke and bombs and lice and filth and noise, noise, noise - you live in a world of cold sick fear, a dirty world of darkness and despair - you want to crawl ignominiously home away from these painful writhing things that once were men, these shattered, tortured faces that dumbly demand what it's all about in Christ's name.”

“Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.”

Home House Women Known England Lunatic Asylums Lunatic Asylums

Author:Virginia Woolf