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"What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person."
"Being an ex-England manager, one that failed to qualify for the World Cup, is like being a dead politician."
"There was very little international support, even England wouldn't support [bombing of Syria], which is amazing."
"Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect."
"What great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and him who is caught in New England and made a Unitarian minister of?"
"Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France."
"The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet."
"The country is an archipelago of lakes,--the lake-country of New England."
"Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box."
"I think the U.K. is an amazing place and has been extremely good to me. Some of my favorite and most-listened-to bands are from England. I have met many good people there and have been in front of some of the most loyal audiences I have ever encountered."
"The English are the people of consummate cant."
"The English are a nation of consummate cant."
"My life is really so much based in England."
"But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]"
"It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing."
"I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep."
"Politicians don't really bring up religion in England."
"Scotland is a great country and many wonderful things have come out of this country, however England gets the glory."
"Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials."
"My, I get so depressed after a poor meal; that's why I can never stay in England for more than a week."
