#england

I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene. ↗

— Peter Porter

#carefully #clues #completely #considered #england

You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there. ↗

— Monica Seles

#because #care #champions #cold #dark

Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#daytime #england #exhausting #gigs #jobs

I still get butterflies when England are playing. ↗

— Alan Shearer

#england #get #i #playing #still

In England everyone puts a lot of pressure on you when you have cost a lot of money. ↗

— Andriy Shevchenko

#england #everyone #lot #money #pressure

I played for 30 years, 20 with England and I did it by setting goals. ↗

— Peter Shilton

#england #goals #i #played #setting

I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an English public school. Here at least one cannot say that English ‘education’ fails to do its job. You forget your Latin and Greek within a few months of leaving school — I studied Greek for eight or ten years, and now, at thirty-three, I cannot even repeat the Greek alphabet — but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the bindweed it is, sticks by you till your grave. ↗

— George Orwell

#england #public-school #snobbery #education

Love is simple, if you allow it to be simple." Julian to Hannah, Take A Chance ↗

— Alison Wong

#chinese #england #english #funny #love

All the lies, all the ways we have of trying to make life simple for ourselves by putting people into boxes marked black, white, good, bad, when all of us are victims of our own prejudices. ↗

— Julia Gregson

#india-england #julia-gregson #london #prejudice-victim #life

Sitting aimlessly in bedrooms- often on the bed itself- is another characteristic feature of the English holidays. The meal was over and it was only twenty five past seven. 'The evening stretches before us,' Viola said gloomily. ↗

— Barbara Pym

#holiday #love