England Quotes
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.
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.
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.
England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.
I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.
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.
It's almost like he has Dr. Who's Tardis because he always turns up on time. (on Teddy Sheringham)
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.
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.
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.
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!
In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea.
The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.
England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.
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.
There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?
I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
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 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.
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.
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.
England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their trade as nowhere else in the western world.
The Spanish league is fantastic, but it has not the great passion the English Premiership has got.
I had had a huge background in the nuance of the accent because I went to drama school in England for four years.
It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England.
There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.
Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.
Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South.
I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn't win any more competitions in that time.
I loved living in Hollywood - and the weather there was just fantastic - but there is something about rural England, and especially Suffolk and Norfolk, that pulls at my heartstrings.
In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.
I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.
The distinction between indoors and outdoors, which in England is usually so marked, was temporarily suspended in a hot gauzy haze.
There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures