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Very few people in the whole of England ever reach Q... -- Virginia Woolf, "To the Lighthouse"
The difference between an American and an Englishman... [is that] An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; an American thinks a hundred years is a long time.-- Diana Gabaldon, "Drums of Autumn"
Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea? --Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
I rode over the mountains to Huddersfield. A wilder people I never saw in England. The men, women and children filled the streets and seemed just ready to devour us. -- John Wesley, June 1757
Grey towers of Durham!. . . Well yet I love thy mixed and massive piles. Half church of God, half castle 'gainst the Scot; And long to roam these venerable aisles, With records stored of deeds long since forgot. -- Sir Walter Scott, _Harold the Dauntless_, 1817
Eee bah gum lad, what's up? Weer are we? -- Graham J. Weeks
No doubt I was experiencing some kind of inherited British need to play fair with regard to queuing. I think its roots are in the colonial thing. The whole raison d'etre for a vast British Empire had been the desire to teach the ignorant peoples of the world how to queue correctly. We British lead the world in queuing. (Well, we used to, until a few other countries pushed in front of us.) -- Tony Hawks, "Round Ireland With a Fridge", 1998
I'm not from these parts... I'm from a little place called England. We used to run the world before you. -- Ricky Gervais, January 24, 2004, upon being the first British actor to win a TV comedy acting award at the Golden Globe Ceremony (BBC)
Perhaps the purest dose of pleasure on movie screens this year was provided by Nick Park and his comrades at Aardman Animations, makers of "Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit." Bringing their jug-eared English inventor and his local pooch to the big screen after three short adventures, the Aardmanites staked out a place of honor for old-fashioned stop-motion animation in a world dominated by digital technology. It is good to know that such solid virtues as localty, hands-on ingenuity, absolute silliness and the love of cheese still have a place in modern cinema. -- A. O. Scott, New York Times Best Films of the Year, December 25, 2005
Mushy peas? How could a people who ate something called mushy peas have conquered half the known world? Spotted dick? I don't want to know... Toast? The English knew how to toast bread, but they served it in a rack designed to ensure the toast would get as cold as possible as fast as possible. I imagined English engineers perfecting the design of those toast racks. "Let's see, we lost an empire, now how can we screw up toast?" -- p. 35, Linda Ellerbee, Take Big Bites, 2005
If you can't chase a cheese down a steep hill after a few drinks, what's the point of being British? -- p. 4, told to J. R. Daeschner, True Brits
Thomas Hardy's House, Dorset
Susan resting at the commemorative Hardy Bench behind his home at Max Gate
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Susan M. Johns-Smith
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