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Just heard Paul Scholes has retired, best I’ve ever played against by a mile. Most technically gifted player in english history. Legend.

Just heard Paul Scholes has retired, best I’ve ever played against by a mile. Most technically gifted player in english history. Legend.

Joey Barton
Player, English History, Legends

The more you look back into English history, the more you are forced to the conclusion that alongside civility and the deeply held convictions about individual rights, the English have a natural taste for disorder.

Anna Pavlova
Rights, English History, Looks

There is no other Parliament like the English. For the ordinary man, elected to any senate, from Perisa to Peru, they may be a certain satisfaction in being elected... but the man who steps into the English Parliament takes his place in a pageant that has ever been filing by since the birth of English history... York or Lancaster, Protestant or Catholic, Court or Country, Roundhead or Cavalier, Whig or Tory, Liberal or Conservative, Labour or Unionist, they all fit into that long pageant that no other country in the world can show.

Josiah Wedgwood
Country, Men, English History

The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going back to colonial times, and in English history from Tudor times.

Gertrude Himmelfarb
Past, English History, Two

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.

Evelyn Waugh
English History, England, Influence
'Decline and Fall' (1928) pt. 1, ch. 8

I think in some parts of our English history we've had huge amounts of almost too much great comedy. You kind of wonder how so much great work could come out of one country.

Kate Bush
Country, Thinking, English History
Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.

Peter Ackroyd
Real, English History, Confusion
"Peter Ackroyd: 'I just want to tell a story'" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2011.

But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be the use he makes of it. The heaviest calamity in English history, the breach with America, might never have occurred if George the Third had not been an honest dullard.

James G. Frazer
Hands, English History, America
"The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doors, English History, Class
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.243

The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.

Margaret Halsey
Attitude, English History, Insulting
Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl. She is always starving for new books to gobble, and she wants grown-up books--great, big, fat ones--French and German as well as English--history and biography and poets, and all sorts of things. Drag her away from her books when she reads too much.

Frances Hodgson Burnett
Girl, Book, English History
Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.9, Xist Publishing

Few people know anything of the English history but what they learn from Shakespear; for our story is rather a tissue of personal adventures and catastrophes than a series of political events.

Elizabeth Montagu
Adventure, English History, People

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