#england

After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks. ↗

— Kurt Student

#after #apart #arrange #british #could

Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#england #even #gates #hath #here

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

— Arthur Murphy

#happy #never #people #ruined #tell

In England, we don't have any guns whatsoever. ↗

— Simon Pegg

#england #guns #whatsoever

I am gonna go into my coaching badges after my England days are finished and I have the time on my international break. ↗

— Steven Gerrard

#am #break #coaching #days #england

England are numerically outnumbered in the midfield. ↗

— Mark Lawrenson

#midfield #numerically #outnumbered

The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot. ↗

— Jay Leno

#doctors #england #idiot #journal #medicine

My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#am #drawing #england #ever #gardener

Thatcher once said that if she were a visitor from Mars required to create a constitutional system, "I would set up ... a hereditary monarchy, wonderfully trained, in duty and in leadership which understands example, which is always there, which is above politics, for which the whole nation has an affection and which is a symbol of patriotism. ↗

— Sally Bedell Smith

#margaret-thatcher #monarchy #queen-elizabeth-ii #the-queen #leadership

I took you out to dinner to warn you of charm. I warned you expressly and in great details of the Flyte family. Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, Charles, it has killed you. Anthony Blanche to Charles ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#england #art