- Quotes by Horace
“Greece, once overcome, overcame her wild conquerer and brought the arts into rustic Latium”. - Quotes by Thomas Hood
“Holland… lies so low they’re only saved by being damned”. - Quotes by Katharine Hepburn
“First God made England, Ireland and Scotland. That’s when he corrected his mistakes and made Wales”. - Quotes by Christine Johann Heinrich Heine
“The French and the Russians have shared out the land, Britannia rules the oceans; We reign unchallenged in the realm, Of dreamy abstract notions“. - Quotes by Margaret Halsey
“Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls. The English never smash in a face. They merely refrainfrom asking it to dinner”.
- Quotes by Germaine Greer
“Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world”. - Quotes by Alasdair Gray
“I realised that Scotland was shaped like a fat messy woman with a surprisingly slender waist. A three stranded belt of road, canal and railway crossed that waist joining Edinburgh, and the ports facing Europe, to Glasgow and the ports facing Ireland and America”. - Quotes by Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
“For he himself has said it; And it’s greatly to his credit, That he is an Englishman! For he might have been a Rooshan, A French, or Turk or Prooshan, Or perhaps I-tal-i-an! But in spite of all temptations, To belong to other nations, He remains an Englishman!”
Tags: Alasdair Gray, Christine Johann Heinrich Heine, Countries And Their Peoples, Germaine Greer, Horace, Katharine Hepburn, Margaret Halsey, Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, Thomas Hood
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