That evening I was the sole guest in the huge dining room, and it was the same startled person who took my order and shortly afterwards brought me a fish that had doubtless lain entombed in the deep-freeze for years. The breadcrumb armour-plating of the...
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W. G. Sebold
I know this goes without saying, but Stonehenge really was the most incredible accomplishment. It took five hundred men just to pull each sarsen, plus a hundred more to dash around positioning the rollers. Just think about it for a minute. Can you imagine trying...
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Bill Bryson
First of all, you must never speak of anything by its name -- in that country. So, if you see a tree on a mountain, it will be better to say 'Look at the green on the high'; for that's how they talk -- in...
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Aleister Crowley
If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called "Damn It".
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism."(Speech in Rome on 20 January, 1927, praising Mussolini)
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Winston S. Churchill
More Quotes By James Agate
I don't know very much but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it… My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.
Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
