England Quotes

When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was.

I have an English family and I've lived in England for years.

Sign at a New England church: Will the last person to leave please see that the perpetual light is extinguished?

In Spain people have lunch and dinner a lot later - when I return to England I'll have to eat alone at midnight.

No more watching that show Small England or whatever it's called where those two idiots dress up as 'laydees'. It's a bad influence.

I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.

In England, where I come from, fashion and music go hand in hand. They're integral to each other.

There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do.

Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics.

I love football, but I'm sick of the World Cup. I don't even care about England.

I knew I was in England by the smell.

England understands good Chinese, Japanese and Indian cuisine; in France, we just get French.

There was a time in medieval England when they had wandering minstrels ... A wandering minstrel would have been Frank Sinatra's counterpart had he lived during the time of Henry II in 1190 or 1180.

England is a country of pianos, they are everywhere.

It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.

The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory.

June in New England is like a lover's dream made tangible.

I was happy to be in England, because my mother had always loved the royals, and so do I.

Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember hearing She Loves You in August 1963.

I've never been one to look too far ahead since I came back into the England side and I'm not going to change that view.

Paul Scholes should be included in England's Euro 2012 squad.

I love England but everything that has happened makes me realise that I would be better off in the States.

England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.

Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business.

The national sport of England is obstacle-racing. People fill their rooms with useless and cumbersome furniture, and spend the rest of their lives in trying to dodge it.

A few years ago England would have struggled to beat the Eskimos

England is my home, but Australia is my land and my country. This is where my heart is and where my family are. Australia will always be there, but I've made the decision to live here.

Before World War II in Canada, you were nobody until you went to England. Then, after that it was you're nobody until you went to the States.

British ferries have stopped transporting live animals to the Continent. This has made it very difficult for England fans to get to Away matches.

My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this.

Will I return to England? I don't know. I'll think it over.

Christianity is part of the laws of England.

Coats are my favorite thing, and it's always cold in England. I'm comfortable spending a bit of money if you know you're going to be wearing it 10 years later.

The better the opposition put in front of you, the better your team plays.

Undoubtedly Internet has reduced the possibilities of taxation. Why should I buy something here if I can buy it from a company in Japan or England or Brazil with a lower tax?

Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England.

The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand.

We have to be careful not to let our game not be the game we know it should be.

The level of football in England is the top. English football is the leader in the world.

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.

England is very dreary, but I'm a people person.

He has always been a slippery little git! (on Joe Cole)

Underneath this little stone Lies Robert Earl of Huntington; No other archer was so good - And people called him Robin Hood. Such outlaws as he and his men Will England never see again.

I've lived in Paris. I've lived in the Slovak Republic. I've spent extensive time in England, and I've traveled all over Europe.

If you score against the Italians you deserve a goal.

That was Pele's strength - holding people off with his arm.

What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?

The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.

In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.