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On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.

~George Mikes

Topics: Continent England Food Good Good Food Manners People Table

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When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.

~George Mikes

Topics: Britain British England Great Great Britain Kingdom Mean Never People People Say Say Sometimes United United Kingdom

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In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

~George Mikes

Topics: Authors Conversation Course England Greek He Knowledge Latin Never Nobody Off Only People Quotes Read Show Show Off Them Uneducated Unless

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A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

~George Orwell

Topics: Come Control Describing England Family Members Near Perhaps Phrase Wrong

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The Conservative party absolutely must not allow itself to be shut out of parts of the north of England.

~George Osborne

Topics: Absolutely Allow Conservative Conservative Party England Itself Must North Out Parts Party Shut

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I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags, and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships.

~George R. R. Martin

Topics: Back China Denmark Different Encyclopedia England Flags Had Imagine Learned Like List Look Ships Some Tried Whatever Would I Tried

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My affiliation with England is borne out by the fact that I do come back for periodic visits.

~George Shearing

Topics: Affiliation Back Borne Come England Fact Out Periodic Visits

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I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.

~George Takei

Topics: England Four Least Once Once A Year Regularly Sometimes Three Times Visit Year

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In my judgment, if we had pursued this course, the zones would have been of short duration. England would have been compelled to take her mines out of the North Sea in order to get any supplies from our country.

~George William Norris

Topics: Any Been Compelled Country Course Duration England Get Had Her Judgment Mines North Order Our Out Pursued Sea Short Supplies Take Would Zone

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I've already bungee jumped, so I am thinking about diving with sharks. I watched a little snippet of 'Jaws 2,' and I was like, 'Nope! I'll save it for a rainy day.' Unfortunately, I live in England, and it's always raining.

~Georgia King

Topics: About Always Am Day Diving England Jaws Like Little Live Raining Rainy Rainy Day Save Sharks Thinking Unfortunately Watched I Am

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