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And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.


Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The men that worked for England / They have their graves at home.
G. K. CHESTERTON The stately homes of England, / How beautiful they stand!
FELICIA HEMANS She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she wa...
JANE AUSTEN In England, I met a couple who run a children's home. They were very kind and showed me many nic...
LAURA DEKKER The stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, ...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of E...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of E...
VIRGINIA WOOLF What private griefs they have, alas, I know not
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do ...
NATHANIEL SMITH Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!
THOMAS HOOD Now they have a riddle.

- Criminal Minds
DEYTH BANGER England and the English As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such t...
GEORGE ORWELL Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor car...
THOMAS GRAY England have played excellent cricket and have met head on the challenges both on and off the field....
STEVE WAUGH Alas! regardless of their doom, The little victims play; No sense have they of ills to come, ...
THOMAS GRAY Alas for the servants! there comes not to them an apostle but they mock at him.
QURAN Good guy... I'm sure you guys have met him before but uh, I was in London [England] and uh...
LONDON LEGRAND Hugo - alas!
ANDRE GIDE Alas, regardless of their doom,
the little victims play!
No sense have they of ills to come, THOMAS GRAY We have a collective failure of leadership unfortunately - there may be individuals who are the exce...
GEORGE CURRY These fledgling democracies in the Middle East, they're actually fighting for their freedom. And...
NOEL GALLAGHER Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a ...
FRIDTJOF NANSEN Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happ...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH A true man does not need to romance a different girl every night, a true man romances the same girl ...
ANA ALAS We have to play smart basketball from start to finish to have a better chance against Granny. We hav...
LOUIE ALAS Incontestably, alas, most people are not, in action, worth very much; and yet, every human being is ...
JAMES BALDWIN But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and ...
ADAM WEISHAUPT England has a long history of supporting alternative medicine - maybe it's because they don'...
DASHA ZHUKOVA Alas! Earwax!
J.K. ROWLING The England management know that we won't overplay them. We want them in the best shape for England ...
MATT DAWSON England have already exceeded all expectations in India and we feel that England have a real chance ...
RUPERT ADAMS England have played excellent cricket and have met head on the challenges both on and off the field,
STEVE WAUGH Alas! That such affected tricks/ Should flourish in a child of six!
HILAIRE BELLOC Alas! in winter, dead and dark,Where can poor Robin go?
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, t...
JANE GREY Before, I said that they were maybe the best supporters in England. Now maybe they are the best supp...
RAFAEL BENITEZ Here With my beer I sit, While golden moments flit: Alas! They pass ...
GEORGE ARNOLD Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I,...
GEORGE ARNOLD We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution.
WILLIAM BOLITHO I think England can go into the fourth Test buoyed by their performances already and are in a situat...
GRAHAM THORPE Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.
HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go
AUSTIN DOBSON Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.
AUSTIN DOBSON England is a memory now. The gates are flooded and anybody can have access to England and join in.
MORRISSEY Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
SYDNEY SMITH I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England. There's something in the milk. They must ...
GAIL CARRIGER I gradually fell from grace; alas, you dove in headfirst!
AHMED MOSTAFA Reasons... questions... what they have in common?

- All get finded in the hard way.
DEYTH BANGER Some years ago, I read an article about two people in the arts (alas, I can’t remember who they we...
TERRI WINDLING The New York Giants had been big in New England for years ? they were New England's team. Their game...
BABE PARILLI My boys don't know any different. Basically, they have grown up in England ... This is home to them.
MARCUS HAHNEMANN England will feel they might have pushed India close if they had a full squad, but they are what the...
ANGUS FRASER Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England.
CHARLES STURT Switzerland are not inferior to anyone. They played well against England. With a bit more luck, they...
THIERRY HENRY Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip? Some bloody passion shakes your very frame. These are p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Kieran Richardson played for England last summer in Chicago and did very well but views himself as a...
DAVID GILL They [former England players] probably stopped believing, whereas a lot of players in the current te...
ANDREW STRAUSS The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider m...
HARRIET MARTINEAU Alas, Postumus, Postumus, the fleeting years are slipping by.
HORACE England had a look at Jimmy in the nets and that's why they called him up,
DARREN GOUGH The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.
STéPHANE MALLARMé I met PJ Harvey when I was in England, and the first thing I want to do when I meet a songwriter I a...
VALERIE JUNE This was simply for the amusement of Pfc. England and the other soldiers. Pfc. England is actively i...
CHUCK NEILL Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; T...
WILLIAM COWPER My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England.
DAVID PROWSE They have one of the strongest squads in England - and when they lose matches it tends to be on inte...
ALEX KING I realized that kids everywhere go for the same stuff; and seeing as we'd done it in England, there'...
JOHN LENNON Alas, love is too regional.
ALAMGIR HASHMI Alas, Time stays, we go.
HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON As a Premier League club, we want a successful England team and the competitions they play in increa...
DAVID GILL The men of England--the men, I mean of light and leading in England.
EDMUND BURKE This England attack doesn't hurt as many batsmen as we used to, but they are hostile and they deserv...
ANDY ROBERTS When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes ...
GEORGE MIKES Alas! sir, In what have I offended you? What cause Hath my behaviour given to your displeasu...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I got criticized for my accent more by Mormons than people in England. The people in England thought...
KIRBY HEYBORNE Luckily England lost. Otherwise they would have come to Paris with the Grand Slam in mind and been e...
BERNARD LAPORTE In my view, fitness training isn't that important in England, as they all train with such intens...
CLAUDIO RANIERI Maybe it's new to us and we need to understand more. I was told referees would be the same in Europe...
DAVID MOYES Our farm in England is not nearly as profitable.
CLIFTON LAMPARD Confession, alas, is the new handshake.
RICHARD D. ROSEN But alas the door remained locked.
NORMAN SIEGEL I like to tell people that I discovered (Hansen), ... Alas, he was already discovered when I first m...
ALEX ROLAND No place in England where everyone can go is considered respectable.
GEORGE MOORE Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we: For such as we are made of, such we be
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
BARBARA AMIEL I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.
UTA HAGEN Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they...
AESCHYLUS The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.
ARTHUR MURPHY Oh, to be in England, Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees some mor...
ROBERT BROWNING Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget. / For we are the people of England, that neve...
G. K. CHESTERTON We didn't have a school golf team in England. Also, there is a lot of rain in England so the courses...
ADAM BRUCE Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But who alas! can love and then be wise?
JOHN BYROM So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at ...
JOHN BRIGHT This England side [2004-5] have a different feel to them. They have a bit of a winning habit and win...
RICKY PONTING When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry th...
NICOLAS CAGE Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on...
WAVY GRAVY I could play, scored a goal; I showed that I can play in Europe, in England. Because many say that E...
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G. K. CHESTERTON Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. CHESTERTON Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
G. K. CHESTERTON The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In thi...
G. K. CHESTERTON Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about som...
G. K. CHESTERTON Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher...
G. K. CHESTERTON The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for ...
G. K. CHESTERTON The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
G. K. CHESTERTON When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that n...
G. K. CHESTERTON Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
G. K. CHESTERTON There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes eve...
G. K. CHESTERTON The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristo...
G. K. CHESTERTON Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the...
G. K. CHESTERTON To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believi...
G. K. CHESTERTON Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a m...
G. K. CHESTERTON Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
G. K. CHESTERTON Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G. K. CHESTERTON The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, beca...
G. K. CHESTERTON One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
G. K. CHESTERTON The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.
G. K. CHESTERTON Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important...
G. K. CHESTERTON What we call personality (...) has become the most impersonal thing in the world. Its pale and featu...
G. K. CHESTERTON The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense...
G. K. CHESTERTON Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our g...
G. K. CHESTERTON The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
G. K. CHESTERTON A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has...
G. K. CHESTERTON Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
G. K. CHESTERTON Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more ...
G. K. CHESTERTON The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
G. K. CHESTERTON It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
G. K. CHESTERTON If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
G. K. CHESTERTON O God of earth and altar,
Bow down and hear our cry,
Our earthly rulers falter,
Our peop...
G. K. CHESTERTON We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to ...
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