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Play · History (play)

There lives not three good men unhanged in England, and one of them is fat and grows old.

William Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part 1 · 1597

★ 7.0

Speech · Political speech

England is the mother of parliaments.

Speech in Birmingham, January 18, 1865 · 1865

★ 5.3

Take away time is money, and what is left of England? Take away cotton is king, and what is left of America?

Les Miserables · 1862

★ 3.9

Interview · TV program

I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being Queen of this country.

Diana, Princess of Wales

1995

★ 3.8

Personal journal

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction. On either side it is pride, but understood in a different way.

Alexis de Tocqueville

1835

★ 3.6

It was at present a place perfectly accordant with man's nature-neither ghastly, hateful, nor ugly; neither commonplace, unmeaning, nor tame; but, like man, slighted and enduring; and withal singularly colossal and mysterious in its swarthy monotony. As with some persons who have long lived apart, solitude seemed to look out of its countenance. It had a lonely face, suggesting tragical possiblities.

The Return of the Native · 1878

★ 3.5

Play · History (play)

This England never did nor never shall Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

William Shakespeare

The Life and Death of King John · 1616

★ 2.1

Who so pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil, is rightwise king born of all England.

Sir Thomas Mallory

Le Morte d'Arthur · 1485

★ 2.0

The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!

James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D · 1763

★ 2.0

Essay · Magazine

The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

1835

★ 2.0

Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.

Charles Churchill

The Farewell · 1764

★ 1.9

England, with all thy faults, I love thee still-My country!

1785

★ 1.9

England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted passage, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr Goebbels. More than either it resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black sheep in it but with all its cupboards bursting with skeletons... A family with the wrong members in control.

1941

★ 1.9

England expects that every man will do his duty.

1805

★ 1.2

A soggy little island huffing and puffing to keep up with Western Europe.

1969

★ 1.1