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Lancashire Quotes

“It is a Lancashire custom to be on the defensive. We anticipate jokes about rain, "bi gum," and Wigan; we expect people to peer at us through the thin layer of smoke they fancy they see around our heads.”

Character Preconception Lancashire

Book:It's an Old Lancashire Custom

Source: It's an Old Lancashire Custom

“Tha didn't mek it, did tha, luv, Our gowden weddin' day. Wi tried so hard to keep thi, But tha quietly slipped away. It's fifty years ago to-day Sin' ah become thi bride, Ah'd give everythin' in t'world, mi luv, To have thi by mi side. But there, it seems 'twere noan fer t'be But ah seems to hear thi say, "Durn't fret, mi lass, just carry on, We'll meet agen some day.”

Love Death Loss Marriage Mourning Dialect Lancashire

Book:Poems in the Lancashire Dialect

Source: Poems in the Lancashire Dialect

“I'm just looking forward to playing, and if anything else comes my way it's a bonus. I'm looking to have an injury-free season and doing things for Lancashire to get us where we belong.”

Ifs Way Seasons England My Way Injury Looking Forward Bonus Lancashire

Author:Stuart Law

“I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every one of my uncles had their own business, including a post office, two fish and chip shops and a painting and decorating business.”

Two Kids Four Painting Dad Office Garden Including Fishes Posts Shops Uncles Centre Chips Retired Own Business Decorating Post Office Fish And Chips Lancashire

Author:Rick Astley

“I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.”

Millions India Trade Raised Ruins Immoral Peasants Lancashire

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.”

Might Order Industry India Cottages Lancashire

Book:Quit India

Source: Quit India

“When I was 2, I used to put pictures of the Manhattan skyline in a little scrapbook. And I used to wear American 'stars and stripe' vests and Daytona Beach stuff and they used to call me 'The Little Yankee.' Thank you to my producers for having faith in a little nobody from Lancashire.”

Littles Used Stars Stuff Producers Beach Call Me Have Faith Yankees Manhattan Stripes Vests Skylines Daytona Lancashire

Author:Tracie Bennett

“What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. Instead of the city of the Violet Crown, a Lancashire village has expanded into a mighty region of factories and warehouses. Yet, rightly understood, Manchester is as great a human exploit; as Athens.”

Source: Coningsby, Or, The New Generation

“In south west Lancashire, babies don't toddle, they side-step. Queuing women talk of 'nipping round the blindside'. Rugby league provides our cultural adrenalin. It's a physical manifestation of our rules of life, comradeship, honest endeavour, and a staunch, often ponderous allegiance to fair play.”

“Wade Dooley: With a handle like that he sounds more like a western sheriff than the Lancashire bobby that he is.”

Sound Western Handle Rugby Wade Sheriffs Lancashire

Author:Norman Mair

“I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887-1976) lived and painted.”

South Lancashire

Author:Ian Mckellen

“I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?”

Girl Realizing Relationship Lancashire

Author:David Thewlis