England
- For those convicted on or after 1 May 1707, see Great Britain and United Kingdom.
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Famous quotes containing the word england:
“I see not much difference between ourselves & the Turks, save that we have foreskins and they none, that they have long dresses and we short, and that we talk much and they little. In England the vices in fashion are whoring & drinking, in Turkey, sodomy and smoking.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“What were the “forests” of England to these?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“An illiterate king is a crowned ass.”
—Medieval English proverb.
Said by the chronicler William of Malmesbury to have been much used by King Henry I of England (1068-1135)