Quotes About England

We have, in fact, used the good name of England to cover up a massacre." What, O'Malley wondered, would "this dislocation between our public attitude and our private feelings" portend for Britain's future dealings with both the Poles and the Russians?

The art of biography seems to have fallen on evil times in England…. With us, the most delicate and humane of all the branches of the art of writing has been relegated to the journeymen of letters; we do not reflect that it is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.

London is often confused with England. The English also live in London but they are only one of the communities which inhabit a true world city.

He came from the tiny group of very grand aristocratic families who, as one of Bertie's cleverer mistresses observed, "believed they26 had the prescriptive right to rule England in the same way as they ruled their estates.

It makes me sick,the blindness, deadness, out-of-dateness, stodginess and, yes, sheer jealous malice of the great bulk of England.

was the beginning of the Tudor claim to an "Anglo-British

Henry first released the twenty-three Scots hostages from the Tower

In August, the lords appealed to England for military aid against the regent.

the founder of the Tudor dynasty, could be the rightful king of England too.

ENGLISH POLICY toward Mary was beginning to fall apart. Elizabeth was losing her nerve.

Henry II wanted to launch a counterattack, especially against England.

Mary Tudor, the English queen, fell mortally ill at the age of forty-two.

Mary Tudor died on November 17, 1558

The terms were a complete vindication of England and the rebel lords, and a betrayal of Mary and her mother.

England, Scotland and France, it was actually between England, the Lords of the Congregation and the Guises

France recognized Elizabeth to be the rightful queen of England.

In England, Maitland continued to Mary, there were "three factions": the Catholics, the Protestants, and the queen.

Mary was not even English, so how could she be accountable to the queen of England or to English judges?

from which the western and central sectors of the border with England were controlled

Patrick was a Scottish patriot: pro-French and anti-English, but also an opportunist who flirted with England

Mary Tudor's most vaunted policy had been to restore Catholicism

the cardinal ordered the heraldic arms of England to be blazoned with those of France and Scotland

England was so much richer and more powerful than its northern neighbor.

On the 16th, she embarked on a fishing boat to cross Solway Firth, landing in England