(1152 quotes found)
“If your wife and child have been murdered and you don't go to the funeral, then there's more to this story, and I think from that moment on both here, the sort of coverage you were seeing, and the sort of coverage you were seeing in England, were simultaneously changing around.”
Andrew Wilson
“I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit”
George Bernard Shaw
“Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.”
Oscar Wilde
“In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.”
“He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.”
“I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.”
“As with all good New Englanders, your solemn duty was to love the Boston Red Sox.”
Contributed by: Green Acres
Ken Perrotte
“One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.”
Mark Twain
“Who is this Pat Condell? He's my friend. He likes his beer; He adores England and respects North America. He can be crude or extremely elegant, and best of all, he despises dogma and the leeches who spout it and the fools who follow the likes of Jones, Falwell, Kennedy, Swaggart, Copeland, Bakker and Hinn.”
Bobby W. Miller
“I don't agree that it shouldn't all be in the public domain. In fact I think it all should be in the public domain... it's private land, not public land, which means that if we're gonna get it back, and I'll use that term advisedly, it has to be purchased rather than just change the law on how it's gonna be managed. .. It should be all of it. There may be different solutions for different particular places, but it should all be treated together. Be unreasonable. You can do it.”
Brock Evans
