#england

If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do. ↗

— Nathaniel Smith

#disposition #england #find #friends #i

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion! ↗

— Sydney Smith

#england #pity #religion #vice

It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket. ↗

— Hank Snow

#died #england #her #i #into

Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically the song 'Summertime in England.' It's 15 minutes long, so to make it through the entire song is a real task unto itself, but Van has that emotional payoff that makes even his most tiresome songs more powerful than most people's entire catalog. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#asleep #been #catalog #common #emotional

At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#british #british empire #dealt #empire #england

It is said, that in Holland Interest is lower than in England. ↗

— Dudley North

#holland #interest #lower #said #than

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

— Simon Pegg

#england #guns #whatsoever

Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S. ↗

— John Pople

#better #chemistry #clearly #decision #england

The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Europe. ↗

— John Burns

#europe #gentlemen #greatest #serve #under

Then my own TV chat show in England in 1989. ↗

— Suzi Quatro

#england #my own #own #show #then