#gland

To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy. ↗

— Trevor McDonald

#certain #england #fallacy #feel #living

England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#culture #different #different perspective #endured #england

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#another #argue #bell #both #clock

England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife. ↗

— Cedric Hardwicke

#away #england #get #good #mistress

My heart is in the Church of England but not my mind. ↗

— Alister Hardy

#england #heart #mind

I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England. ↗

— Randy Harrison

#career #confident #doing #either #england

England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#england #europe #france #india #indies

More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#england #governments #local #local governments #more

The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#because #colonies #departments #england #government

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#caused #effort #england #growth #immense