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In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.
George Mikes

Knowledge, Off, Show

Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.
Elizabeth I

May, Son, Though

You know the marathon in my country is just exceptional. It's like soccer in England. If England win the world cup and Ethiopia win the marathon - it's the same.
Haile Gebrselassie

Win, Country, Same

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?'
John Mayer

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.
Jane Goodall

Money, Mother, School

Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Beauty, Women, Past

I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Love, Family, Home

My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this.
Kim Cattrall

Try, Film, Theatre

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.
Steven Patrick Morrissey

Against, Identity, Countries

The solo years have been more meaningful to the audiences than the Smiths years, but the press in England only write about me in relation to the Smiths era.
Steven Patrick Morrissey

Write, Meaningful, Press

No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.
James Larkin

Women, Men, Fight

Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.
Damian Lewis

Life, Time, Good

In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!'
Damian Lewis

Thought, Young, Hair

Here in England, everyone's a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.
Amy Winehouse

America, Here, Everyone

There's not a big gun culture in England at all still.
Clive Owen

Big, Gun, Culture

Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.
Clive Owen

Movies, Career, English

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.
Russell Brand

Good, Someone, Police

Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.
Patti Smith

Pretty, Broke, Horses

Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve.
Emeril Lagasse

Growing, Needed, Evolve

In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
V. S. Naipaul

Fate, English, India

In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
V. S. Naipaul

Oh, to be in England now that April's there.
Robert Browning

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.
Salman Rushdie

Power, Moment, Few

The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.
Jay Leno

Idiot, Agree, Medicine

Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.
Thomas Francis Meagher

History, Death, Law

I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.
Colin Firth

Living, Reason, Intentions

Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
John Milton

Live, Forget, Her

Will I return to England? I don't know. I'll think it over.
Lillie Langtry

My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.
Lillie Langtry

Wonderful, Quiet, Paid

But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.
Rowan Atkinson

Society, Arrogance, Actually

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