France is, and must always remain, England’s greatest danger.
Poor Wales. So far from Heaven, so close to England.
If there's one thing that chafes French pride, it's seeing the British steal the limelight.
The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.
It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so often for so many years. Every country has one opponent they want to beat and for us, it's Sweden.
No one is better at not beating America than England.
The French are never happy coming to London; this is an ancient and comforting enmity.
Together he [Girolamo Savonarola] and his archenemy Lorenzo [de' Medici] would have been the stuff of gargoyles. One could almost imagine the diptych in which their profiles confronted each other, their noses as powerful as their personalities.
