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“I left England when I was four because I found out I could never be King.”

Author:Bob Hope

“England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.”

Mind May Stills Country Found Left England Faults Thee Manners

Book:The Life and Works of William Cowper: His life and letters by William Hayley. Now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence

Source: The Life and Works of William Cowper: His life and letters by William Hayley. Now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence

“Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the marshes of Holland, but then the summer ended and most of the painters left, and the long dingy undergarment of the gray New England winter, gray as the spirit of my mood, came down to visit.”

Source: Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel

“However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.”

Ifs Persons Left England Newspapers Eighty Publication

Book:Thoughts on Education: Chosen from the Writings of Matthew Arnold

Source: Thoughts on Education: Chosen from the Writings of Matthew Arnold

“England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God save the King than of stealing from a poor box.”

Source: A Collection of Essays

“If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.”

Ifs Way Literature Left Forget Dignity England Performing Fleas Pitiful English Literature Antics

Book:The Letters of Sean O'Casey: 1910-41

Source: The Letters of Sean O'Casey: 1910-41

“I always wanted to be a comedian. I loved comedy since I was a little kid, and while I was at university I started doing stand up shows. Once I realized that I was good at it I quit college and left although I had six months left. I went to England. I could have done the last six months but I realized that I was better at standup comedy than I was at singing opera.”

Littles Done Shows Kids Wanted Lasts Left Comedy College Months Six Singing England University I Realized Quitting Comedian Opera Six Months Little Kid I Quit

Author:Jim Jefferies

“The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word No.”

Young Left Millions Five Generations Grew Grew Up England Property Hearing Damage Riot Brits

Author:Bob Barr

“The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left--the King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.”

World Heart Whole Left Five Kings England Clubs Whole World Diamond Revolt Spades

Author:Farouk of Egypt

“It was in the beginning of the month of November, 17--, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the university of Oxford, made use of the liberty afforded him, to visit some parts of the north of England; and curiosity extended his tour into the adjacent frontier of the sister country.”

Made Book Country Use Young Left Liberty Months England Curiosity University Gentleman Frontiers November Oxford English Gentleman

Book:The Waverley Novels: In Twelve Volumes, Printed from the Latest English Editions, Embracing the Author's Last Corrections, Prefaces, and Notes

Source: The Waverley Novels: In Twelve Volumes, Printed from the Latest English Editions, Embracing the Author's Last Corrections, Prefaces, and Notes

“Industrialization came to England but has since left.”

Left England Industrialization

Book:Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .

Source: Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .

“When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.”

Men Next Left Rooms Sitting England Charisma Dining Dining Rooms Gladstone Disraeli

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.”

People Stills Left Religious Letters England Agree Boards Persecution Puritan Scarlet Puritanism Religious Persecution Dunking

Author:Hugh Hefner

“The idea of separating church and state by the Founding Fathers of America was freedom from the domination of one form of religion, because many of them left England, because they were persecuted by the church, because they want to express their Christian faith in a different way. So it was a bit of warfare between Christians.”

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