#gland

They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense. ↗

— George Combe

#brute #brute force #chooses #england #few

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

— John Florio

#hell #horses #men #paradise #purgatory

Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago. ↗

— Keith Henson

#came #captured #carried #england #found

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

— Steven T. Katz

#bank #england #jews #laureate #poet

The weather in England can really darken your spirits. ↗

— Claire Forlani

#england #really #spirits #weather #your

I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that. ↗

— William Kidd

#care #death #england #friends #good

In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#be different #circumstances #countries #different #different countries

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#between #century #come #comfortable #done

English players are as easy to coach. The problem is that the Premier League has the best players in the world, and statistically not all of them can be born in England. But we don't have enough English players: we are working very hard on it. ↗

— Arsene Wenger

#born #coach #easy #england #english

I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables. ↗

— Arsene Wenger

#england #enough #i #i think #meat