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England Quotes

So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.

"Hands off Zimbabwe, Mugabe tells Blair", www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2002.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

Quoted in Barry E. O'Meara, Napoleon in Exile (1822). The Pennsylvania Gazette, 20 Aug. 1794, prints "Barrere's Report of the Naval Action of the 1st of June" to the National Convention of France, 16 June. Included in this report is the sentence: "Let Pitt then boast of this victory of his nation of shop-keepers (national boutiquiere.)" The author was revolutionary and legislator Bertrand Barrere. See Adam Smith 7; Josiah Tucker 1

At age 10 or 12 he's going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course, down at the bottom of England just off South Hampton.

"Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". Academy of Achievemnt Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

England expects that every man will do his duty.

Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.149, Cambridge University Press

It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.

1982 interview with Judy Harris, republished in "Aunt Bessie's How to Survive a Day Job While Pursuing the Creative Life" edited by Joel Eisenbergy, Topos Books, (p. 68), 2005.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.

"Making History". Interview with Benny Morris, www.tabletmag.com. July 26, 2010.

I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.

David Cameron, Dylan Jones (2008). “Cameron on Cameron: conversations with Dylan Jones”