In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. - Herbert George Wells Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life for there is in London all that life can afford. - Samuel Johnson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to. - Clarence Seward Darrow Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth. - Calvin Trillin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. - Arthur Conan Doyle Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. - Douglas Jerrold Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose. - Alan Patrick Herbert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else. - James Agate Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country - William Cowper Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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England is a paradise for women and hell for horses Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women.... - Robert Burton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, 'Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me.' - Grace Murray Hopper Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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The future of the aircraft industry is still the responsibility of the engineer. Money alone never did and never will create anything. - Unknown Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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The engineering is secondary to the vision. - Cynthia Ozick Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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We must be free or die who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake, the faith and morals hold Which Milton held. - William Wordsworth Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role. - Dean Acheson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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There are many religions, but there is only one morality. - John Ruskin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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Great Britain has lost an Empire and not yet found a role. - Dean Acheson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it. - James Agate Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
We dont bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we dont dress well and weve got no manners. - George Bernard Shaw Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed.' - Dorothy Parker Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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Climate helps to shape the character of peoples, certainly no people more than the English. The uncertainty of their climate has helped to make the English, a long-suffering, phlegmatic, patient people rather insensitive to surprise, stoical against storms,. slightly incredulous at every appearance of the sun, touched by the lyrical gratitude of someone who expects nothing and suddenly receives more than he dreamed. - Herbert Ernest Bates Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue.... There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week. - Margot Tennant Asquith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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The English summer three fine days and a thunderstorm. - Proverb Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still. - Charles Churchill Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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The British nation is unique in this respect, They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst. - Winston Churchill Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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