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English culture has always allowed room for the freedom to express, especially through fashion, and the punk era has remained a strong influence on British attitudes, art and music.
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I arrived last night, right in time for English Department cocktails. The tail belonged to a lovely young thing with a passion for D. H Lawrence [A Beautiful Mind]
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Sunday league cricket: multi-coloured pyjamas, two tone umpires, and white balls with black seams. There is nothing like traditional English sport.
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It might be a move in six months. But I'll make up my mind. I'll have a look at where I've been and where I want to go and I'll continue in that way. [replying to calls for him to resign as Coach of English cricket. It's not his fault the players were rubbish against Aussie in 2006!]
View quotes by Duncan Fletcher

We have vitally important Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and English Local Authority elections next year and we must resolve this matter well in advance of these. [to Blair when resigning]
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It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.
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Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.
View quotes by Mike Myers

The relationship between the Welsh and the English is based on trust and understanding. They don't trust us and we don't understand them.
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I spoke to him. I was speaking English and then changed to French on purpose and he changed with me at the same time [Petr Cech]
View quotes by Jose Mourinho

Saddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language.
View quotes by Jay Leno

I like Simon Jones. He's got genuine pace and against the Aussies on good wickets there isn't much room for the good old English seamer.
View quotes by Phil Tufnell

The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.
View quotes by J R R Tolkien

High, high above the North Pole, on the first day of 1969, two professors of English Literature approached each other at a combined velocity of 1,200 miles per hour
View quotes by David Lodge

'Tis the hard grey weather
Breeds hard English men.

View quotes by Charles Kingsley

Many continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.
View quotes by George Mikes

'Playing for Success is working tremendously well since its launch five years ago. It's getting lots of schoolkids more involved with their local sports teams while teaching them the basics in a way that interests them.' - on initiatives to improve English rugby
View quotes by Johnny Wilkinson

Playing for Success is working tremendously well since its launch five years ago. It's getting lots of schoolkids more involved with their local sports teams while teaching them the basics in a way that interests them.' - on initiatives to improve English rugby

View quotes by Jonny Wilkinson

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
View quotes by Clarence Darrow

If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!
View quotes by Ma Ferguson

Pre-game pep talk before facing England: 'Look what these bastards have done to Wales. They've taken our coal, our water, our steel. They buy our houses and they only live in them for a fortnight every 12 months. What have they given us? Absolutely nothing. We've been exploited, raped, controlled and punished by the English - and that's who you are playing this afternoon'
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