“O, I'm the chief of Ulva's isle, / And this Lord Ullin's daughter.”
Thomas Campbell
“This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, Th”
William Shakespeare
“Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't”
Stephen Leacock
“Edward VIII replaced his fly buttons with a zip, a revolutionary move; and his Fair Isle pullovers, shorts and Windsor knots were considered by some to foreshadow the end of Empire.”
Angus McGill
“A major rugby tour by the British Isles to New Zealand is a cross between a medieval crusade and a prep school outing.”
John Hopkins
“Storied of old in high immortal verse / Of dire chimeras and enchanted isles, / And rifted rocks whose entrance leads to Hell.”
John Milton
“After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him.”
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