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Letter "G" » Great Britain
«This island is almost made of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish in Great Britain at the same time.»
Author: Aneurin Bevan
(Politician)
| Keywords:
Britain, coal, Great Britain, island, organizing, shortage, surrounded
«If you are to give him the whole of Great Britain and Ireland for an estate, he would ask the Isle of Man for a potato garden»
«Just for a word - 'neutrality', a word which in wartime has so often been disregarded, just for a scrap of paper - Great Britain is going to make war.»
Author: Theobald Theodor Von Bethmann-Hollweg
(Chancellor, Politician)
| Keywords:
Britain, disregarded, Great Britain, scrap, scraps, wartime
«The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain, and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Constitution,
Equality,
Mankind
| Keywords:
assertion, assertions, Britain, declaration, effecting, Great Britain, placed, practical, Practical effect, separation
«MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This definition of the word has the authority of ignorance, Mary of Magdala being another person than the penitent woman mentioned by St. Luke. It has also the official sanction of the governments of Great Britain and the United States. In England the word is pronounced Maudlin, whence maudlin, adjective, unpleasantly sentimental. With their Maudlin for Magdalene, and their Bedlam for Bethlehem, the English may justly boast themselves the greatest of revisers.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
adjective, adjectives, Bedlam, Bethlehem, Bethlehem To, boast, Britain, government officials, government of the United, government of the United States, Great Britain, inhabitant, justly, Luke, Mary, maudlin, mentioned, official, penitent, popularly, pronounced, sanction, sentimental, St Luke, The Authority, unpleasantly, whence
«America's health care system is second only to Japan... Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, ... well all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky stars we don't live in Paraguay!»
Author: Dan Castellaneta
(Actor, Writer)
| Keywords:
Britain, Canada, Europe, Great Britain, health care, japan, lucky, Paraguay, Sweden, thank
«Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Britain, common language, Great Britain, nations, nation state, separated, States, the United States, united, United States
«Combat forces of the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Poland, and other countries enforced the demands of the United Nations, ended the rule of Saddam Hussein - and the people of Iraq are free.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
| Keywords:
Australia, Britain, combat, ended, enforced, free state, Great Britain, Hussein, Iraq, Poland, rule of, Saddam, Saddam Hussein, The United Nations, United Nations
«It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
diamond, Great Britain, polished, the Graces
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