England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.
When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.
We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.
Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.
The idea of England in decline is very attractive.
I love England and the historical aspect of it.
In England, your life is your life.
Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.
An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.
We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.