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“Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations. I would not for a moment venture to hint that it was a matter of taste; but I think I will go as far as this: that if a position is admittedly unkind, uncomfortable, unnecessary, and superfluously useless, although it were as respectableasthe Church of England, the sooner a man is out of it, the better for himself, and all concerned.”

“At least being prosperous set one apart in England; here it guaranteed nothing, not even taste.”

Taste England Prosperous

Book:Timescape

Source: Timescape

“Welcome to Bologna on Capital Gold for England versus San Marino with Tennent's Pilsner, brewed with Czechoslovakian yeast for that extra Pilsner taste and England are one down!”

Football Taste Gold England Welcome Extras Versus Commentators Yeast Bologna

Author:Jonathan Pearce

“Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord, That would reduce these bloody days again And make poor England weep in streams of blood! Let them not live to taste this land's increase That would with treason wound this fair land's peace! Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again: That she may long live here, God say amen!”

May Long Book Poor Lord Blood Land Taste Fairs Increase England Edges Wounds Streams Bloody Gracious Traitor Treason Amen

Book:The plays of William Shakespeare

Source: The plays of William Shakespeare

“I am surprised you shd. say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these wd. be better satisfied in the Church of England, for bad taste is always meeting one in the accessories of Catholicism.”

Mind States Church Taste England Meetings Satisfied Fancy Catholicism State Of Mind Aesthetic Accessories Bad Taste Church Of England

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)

“If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.”

Ifs World Would Be Fire Taste Pure Ideals England If I Could Refinement Ideal World Elizabethan Georgians

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.”

Art Boys Students Taste England Police Musical London Emergence Radar Ramones Art Students Musical Taste Cbgb

Author:Alan Rickman

“Cover your glass in France or Germany --even worse, in England - and in the voice of someone who has personally affronted, your host will ask why you're not drinking. 'Oh, I just don't feel like it this morning.' 'Why not?' 'I guess I'm not in the mood?' 'Well, this'll put you in the mood. Here. Drink up.' 'No, really, I'm OK.' 'Just taste it.' 'Actually, I'm sort of...well, I sort of have a problem with it.' 'Then how about half a glass?”

Feels Wells Problem Asks Voice Half Morning Drink Taste England Drinking Glasses Mood France Germany Why Not Host

Author:David Sedaris