Quotes from 1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England

“N.B. – Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.”
― quote from 1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England

“The Scots (originally Irish, but by now Scotch) were at this time inhabiting Ireland, having driven the Irish (Picts) out of Scotland; while the Picts (originally Scots) were now Irish (living in brackets) and vice versa. It is essential to keep these distinctions clearly in mind (and verce visa).”
― quote from 1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England

“Gladstone .. spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question, ...”
― quote from 1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England

“With the ascension of Charles I to the throne we come at last to the Central Period of English History (not to be confused with the Middle Ages, of course), consisting in the utterly memorable Struggle between the Cavaliers (Wrong but Wromantic) and the Roundheads (Right but Repulsive).”
― quote from 1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England

“Memorable among the Saxon warriors were Hengist and his wife (? or horse), Horsa. Hengist made himself King in the South. Thus Hengist was the first English King and his wife (or horse), Horsa, the first English Queen (or horse).”
― quote from 1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England

“One day when George III was insane he heard that the Americans never had afternoon tea. This mace him very obstinate and he invited them all to a compulsory tea-party at Boston: the Americans, however, started pouring the tea into Boston harbour and went on pouring things into Boston harbour until they were quite Independent, thus causing the United States.”
― quote from 1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England

“While the Roman Empire was overrun by waves not only of Ostrogoths, Vizigoths and even Goths, but also of Vandals (who destroyed works of art) and Huns (who destroyed everything and everybody, including Goths, Ostrogoths, Vizigoths and even Vandals), Britain was attacked by waves of Picts (and, of course, Scots) who had recently learnt how to climb the wall, and of Angles, Saxons and Jutes who, landing at Thanet, soon overran the country with fire (and, of course, the sword).”
― quote from 1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England

“It was at this time that some very pious Englishmen, known as the Early Fathers, who were being persecuted for not learning Avoirduroi, sailed away to America in a ship called the Mayfly; this is generally referred to as the Pilgrims' Progress and was one of rhe chief causes of America.”
― quote from 1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England

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“There's a curse on me as there's a curse on the Larkin name. The curse comes back, again and again, to taunt me! Ronan! Kilty! Tomas! And now me! What are the Irish among men? Are we lepers? Are we a blight? Will there ever be an end to our tears?”
― Leon Uris, quote from Trinity

“أعتقد يا والدي أن أهم صفات الإنسان المحببة أن يتميز بالخيال، فهذا يجعل الناس قادرين على وضع أنفسهم في موضع الآخرين، ومن ثم يشعرون بالعطف والحنان والفهم، وهذه الصفة -الخيال- يجب أن تزرع وتغرس في قلوب الصغار. لكن للأسف كان بيت جون جرير يطمس على الفور أية بادرة تظهر من هذه الصفة. الصفة الوحيدة المسموح لها أن تسود وتسيطر هي صفة الشعور بالواجب، أعتقد أنه من المكروه والمرذول أن تجعل الأطفال ينغمسون انغماسا كليا في تشرب هذه الصفة الأخيرة، لأنه من الواجب ومن الضروري أن يتصرفوا ويفعلوا كل شيء من خلال الحب والاقتناع.

انتظر حتى ترى ذلك الملجأ الذي أنوي أن أترأسه، هذا هو حلمي المفضل ولعبتي الذهنية الأولى عندما أذهب لأنام. لقد خططت لكل شيء حتى أصغر التفاصيل، مثل نظام الواجبات والملابس والمذاكرة والتسلية والعقاب. أيتامي سيكونون كغيرهم أشقياء، لكنهم -على أية حال- سيكونون في غاية السعادة.”
― Jean Webster, quote from Daddy-Long-Legs

“I didn’t look to the shore much after this first long and memorable glimpse. I looked up at Heaven and her court of mythical creatures fixed forever in the all powerful and inscrutable stars. Ink black was the night beyond them, and they so like jewels that old poetry came back to me, the sound even of hymns sung only by men.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Pandora

“It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible — incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It seemed to me that I made no impact on the world, and that in exchange I was privileged to watch it unawares.”
― Marilynne Robinson, quote from Housekeeping

“He felt as though his heart were a bomb, a complicated bomb that would result in a simple explosion, wrecking the world without rocking it.”
― Nathanael West, quote from Miss Lonelyhearts / The Day of the Locust

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