Australia Beat England

Famous quotes containing the words australia, beat and/or england:

    I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    An illiterate king is a crowned ass.
    —Medieval English proverb.

    Said by the chronicler William of Malmesbury to have been much used by King Henry I of England (1068-1135)