The English, the English, The English are best: So Up with the English and Down with the Rest! - Michael Flanders

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We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.

Michael Flanders

The English, the English, The English are best: So Up with the English and Down with the Rest!

Down, English, Rest

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If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways.

Flanders, Fly, Given, Intended, Railway, Railways

January brings the snow
Makes your feet and fingers glow
February's ice and sleet
Freeze the toes right off your feet
Welcome March with wintry wind
Would thou wer't not so unkind
April brings the sweet spring showers
On and on for hours and hours.

Hours, Ice, Spring, Sweet, Welcome

The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

Comforting, Jobs, Purpose, Rightly, Satire

Eating people is wrong.

Eating, Ice Cream, People, Wrong

One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears.

Able, Dears, Scientists, Today, World

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We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.

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W.N.P. Barbellion

How I hate the man who talks about the 'brute creation', with an ugly emphasis on Brute. Only Christians are capable of it. As for me, I am proud of my close kinship with other animals. I take a jealous pride in my Simian ancestry. I like to think that I was once a magnificent hairy fellow living in the trees and that my frame has come down through geological time via sea jelly and worms and Amphioxus, Fish, Dinosaurs, and Apes. Who would exchange these for the pallid couple in the Garden of Eden?

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W. Somerset Maugham

Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?' The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly. Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you. ' Didn't you mean them?' At the moment.

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Cassandra Clare

One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

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George Eliot

. . . there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.

Art, Light, Mind, Feminine, Women