England Quotes

In England, pop art and fine art stand resolutely back to back.

That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.

I still read the British papers, but I’ve never been a Royalist, ever. It’s funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England.

I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.

Here in America, people come out to see what they've known you to do. In England it's like everyone comes out to tell you exactly how well they think you're doing.

I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?

At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec and Palmyra.

England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.

The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea.

English? Who needs to spend time learning that? I'm never going to England!

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

You know, nobody eats in England. three or four pints of english beer a night fills you. i can’t say i’m very impressed with the food in America. it’s all sort of bland. like turkey sandwiches.

Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up.

Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make.

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn't noticed the change, I'd been having such a ball!

Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.

I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.

England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.

Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.

It's almost like he has Dr. Who's Tardis because he always turns up on time. (on Teddy Sheringham)

The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after two minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.

I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.

England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.

From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The wit and wisdom of New England folk.

Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.

William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up in Ireland.

Well I've never been to England But I kind of like the Beatles.

There's a lot of good things about England, but I don't want to tell you too many of them.

By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.

I love scoring goals for England and playing for England. That's one of the reasons I didn't retire - I love playing for my country.

I haven't retired from international football - I still believe I have a part to play in the future of England.

The weather in England can really darken your spirits.

Finally, I have lived the dream. I am extremely proud to have worn the armband and been captain of England and for that I will always be grateful.

A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.

The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.

In England we are sort of very awkward.

I don't envisage I will be captain again, but for two England managers, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, I was their first choice and I'm proud of that.

If you want to swim across the English Channel from England to France - you have to leave your doubt on the beach in England.

Will you say England belongs to other nationals because they are there in largenumbers?

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

Boy George is all England needs. Another queen who can't dress.

If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.

England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.

His head just disappeared into his shoulders.

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.