England/education

Famous quotes containing the words england and/or education:

    Old England liberty—to be robbed by the Ministry, and insulted by the populace without redress.
    —J.G. (John Gabriel)

    Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but nothing leads one to suppose that Racine in a barbarous age would have attained the grandeur, force and nature of Shakespeare.
    Horace Walpole (1717–1797)