England Christmas Quotes & Sayings

The sons of the masters were roaming the world, looking for arms to hold them. And the arms that might have held them
could not forgive. — James Baldwin

Incidentally, that thing you are dreading - it will happen on Friday the sixteenth of October. — J.K. Rowling

I loved the first Christmas I had in England. — Blythe Danner

Ah," said Mr Jesmond, "but Christmas in England is a great institution and I assure you at Kings Lacey you would see it at its best. It's a wonderful old house, you know. Why, one wing of it dates from the fourteenth century."

Again Poirot shivered. The thought of a fourteenth-century English manor house filled him with apprehension. He had suffered too often in the historic country houses of England. He looked round appreciatively at his comfortable modern flat with its radiators and the latest patent devices for excluding any kind of draught.

"In the winter," he said firmly, "I do not leave London. — Agatha Christie

The librarian is a caricature of librarian - short white hair, horn-rimmed glasses, a bosom you could hide Christmas presents under and a New England-tight-ass face that looks like she hasn's taken a shit since her family came over on the Mayflower. — Bart Yates

Mrs. Martin," he started, "I would like to ask your permission to court your daughter. — Nely Cab

You look at these primaries so far, do you realize they don't like [Ted] Cruz either, Ted - Chris [Christie]. In fact, maybe they dislike Cruz more than [Donald] Trump. But Cruz and Trump are the only guys that have won anything. The establishment candidates in this race cannot get noticed. — Rush Limbaugh

A man so far out of his league he suffered from altitude sickness. — Marisha Pessl

So I'm reading some poem by Louise . . . something, I forget her last name, but it's about Hades and the underworld, and I don't even notice that Paige has come up to my table until she says, 'Doesn't everyone want love?' And I'm thinking, wow, that's a pretty deep question, but then again Paige is really smart, and this is my chance to finally show her that I'm not just a dumb jock. So I say, 'I heard this theory once that love means your subconscious is attracted to someone else's subconscious.'"

"Very deep," Cade said.

"Exactly. And I'm feeling proud of myself for that one, until she points to the book and says, 'Oh, that wasn't a question. I was just quoting a line from the poem. — Julie James

I'd like to be a cross between Bruce Parry and Keith Floyd. Someone with a sense of adventure who truly loves food. — Arthur Potts Dawson

It was Christmas night, the eve of the Boxing Day Meet. You must remember that this was in the old Merry England of Gramarye, when the rosy barons ate with their fingers, and had peacocks served before them with all their tail feathers streaming, or boars' heads with the tusks stuck in again - when there was no unemployment because there were too few people to be unemployed - when the forests rang with knights walloping each other on the helm, and the unicorns in the wintry moonlight stamped with their silver feet and snorted their noble breaths of blue upon the frozen air. Such marvels were great and comfortable ones. But in the Old England there was a greater marvel still. The weather behaved itself. — T.H. White

If you don't know your worth, if you don't know your value, if you don't know how fantabulous you are - it's going to be hard for other people to see it. Being appreciative of self is beauty to me. — Kelly Rowland

We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns. — Aaron Sorkin

My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning. — Mary Quant

I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer. — Edmund Hillary

We have thought that because children are young they are silly. We have forgotten the blind stirrings, the reaching outward of our own youth. — Mabel Robinson