#gland

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#england #shakespeare #england

Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for -- annually, not oftener -- if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous twelve months instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians. Thanksgiving Day became a habit, for the reason that in the course of time, as the years drifted on, it was perceived that the exterminating had ceased to be mutual and was all on the white man's side, consequently on the Lord's side; hence it was proper to thank the Lord for it and extend the usual annual compliments. ↗

— Mark Twain

#thanksgiving #england

It's cold and it's mean spirited and I don't like it here anymore. ↗

— Alan Moore

#england

If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much. ↗

— Helene Hanff

#debt #england #kiss #please #writers

This is England," he explained. "Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources. ↗

— Maureen Johnson

#law #london #procedures #nature

If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism." (Speech in Rome on 20 January, 1927, praising Mussolini) ↗

— Winston Churchill

#fascism #history #italy #lenin #politics

A small and sinister snow seems to be coming down relentlessly at present. The radio says it is eventually going to be sleet and rain, but I don't think so; I think it is just going to go on and on, coming down, until the whole world...etc. It has that look. ↗

— Edward Gorey

#rain #sleet #snow #weather #england

Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research. ↗

— Brian Eno

#england

Neville will play Quidditch for England before Hagrid lets Dumbledore down. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#england

If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called "Damn It". ↗

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#humour #england