This taken from William Shakespear's Richard II (Act II, Scene I).
"This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,—
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England."
Of course Jon would be quick to tell us his favorite movie that contains a part of this quote, The Scarlet Pimpernel (I'm not sure if Sir. Percy quotes Shakespear in the book).
PS. I, of course, am not refering to the 1982 version of The Scarlet Pimpernel with Jane Seymour, but rather Herald Young's 1935 classic staring Leslie Howard (Pygmalion, Gone With the Wind).
My favorite quote of all time:
Posted by Benjamin Crum at 12/09/2005 03:46:00 PM
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I have a really awesome Leslie Howard movie called The Petrified Forest, I should loan it to you sometime - it also has Humphrey Bogaert in his breakout role. As far as I'm concerned his Scarlet Pimpernail in the ONLY Scarlet Pimpernail.
(not humphrey bogaert's scarlet pimpernail)
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