#gland

I come from a family of pacifists, so it's not like I was going to join the war. Sweden is not like the States or England where you might get sent to Afghanistan next month. ↗

— Bill Skarsgard

#come #england #family #get #going

I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me. ↗

— Wallis Simpson

#hundred #i #look #love #love me

One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#captain #chair #company #day #england

Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically the song 'Summertime in England.' It's 15 minutes long, so to make it through the entire song is a real task unto itself, but Van has that emotional payoff that makes even his most tiresome songs more powerful than most people's entire catalog. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#asleep #been #catalog #common #emotional

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

#british #british empire #dealt #empire #england

I am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England. ↗

— Theresa May

#church #daughter #england #i #i am

All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs. ↗

— Andrew Fletcher

#affairs #been #court #crowns #designs

The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined. ↗

— Arthur Murphy

#happy #never #people #ruined #tell

It is said, that in Holland Interest is lower than in England. ↗

— Dudley North

#holland #interest #lower #said #than

My life is really so much based in England. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#england #life #much #my life #really