#england

England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses. ↗

— John Florio

#hell #horses #men #paradise #purgatory

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#any #child #college #dream #england

I didn't expect to be dropped by England. ↗

— Rio Ferdinand

#england #expect #i

I have English family in Northhampton and have been to England numerous times. ↗

— Steve Kanaly

#england #english #family #i #numerous

The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank. ↗

— Steven T. Katz

#bank #england #jews #laureate #poet

They are not your players, they are loaned from the club. You just wheel them out for a game for England. ↗

— Kevin Keegan

#england #game #just #loaned #out

I divide my time between homes in Arizona and England, six months a year in each place. ↗

— Terri Windling

#between #divide #each #england #homes

The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one’s soul, its vastness, and also its grim charm. When you are once out upon its bosom you have left all traces of modern England behind you, but on the other hand you are conscious everywhere of the homes and the work of prehistoric people. On all sides of you as you walk are the houses of these forgotten folk, with their graves and the huge monoliths which are supposed to have marked their temples. As you look at their grey stone huts against the scarred hillsides you leave your own age behind you, and if you were to see a skin-clad, hairy man crawl out from the low door, fitting a flint-tipped arrow on to the string of his bow, you would feel that the presence there was more natural than your own. The strange thing is that they should have lived so thickly on what must always have been most unfruitful soil. I am no antiquarian, but I could imagine that they were some unwarlike and harried race who were forced to accept that which none other would occupy. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#england #landscape #moors #age

If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#could #create #england #fire #georgians

He took a long drink, then grimaced. “I do not have a drinking problem,” he announced, his voice needlessly loud. “I have a Churchillian relationship with alcohol: I can crack jokes and govern England and do anything I want to do. Except not drink. ↗

— John Green

#the-fault-in-our-stars #england