England Quotes
Our shipping and sea service is our best and safest defence as being the only fortification and rampart of England.
Whether splendidly isolated or dangerously isolated, I will not now debate; but for my part, I think splendidly isolated, because the isolation of England comes from her superiority.
The days draw out, the weather gets warmer, and it's what we call summer, with a bitter laugh when we've said it.
The nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Nature's gifts to her English children ... we have all of us yielded to infatuation at some moment of our lives.
Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve.
What great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and him who is caught in New England and made a Unitarian minister of?
Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.
Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.
I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.
We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.
"The Church of England," I said, seeing that Mr. Inglesant paused, "is no doubt a compromise."
If I am going to be the future bloody Queen of England I'm going to wear that dress once because I'm giving up the rest of my life, all of my privacy. At least I can get a new dress every day!
The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.
We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.
I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.
My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed in Virginia. I'm a Virginian Ballard.
As for what you're calling hard luck - well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish.
Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in.
In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.
England has an interesting relationship with the Indian subcontinent because the years of colonization and the history between the two places.
You can get samosas in any pub in England today, pretty much. So, "Gunga Din" has come back.
When my family decided to leave England I could not have been happier. I was sort of like - America seemed like the land of opportunity and, you know, it was Hollywood to me.
A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
Though the profusion of Government must undoubtedly have retarded the natural progress of England to wealth and improvement, it has not been able to stop it.
The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
As a parish priest of the Church Of England I promise to look after everyone in the community, not just those who come to church, not just white people, not just the Christians.
The second half was easy to sum up - and absolute shambles! (on England losing to Denmark 4-1)
England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.
There is a lot of luck in football. Following England is like following Wycombe Wanders or Leyton Orient. You hope for the best and hope you are lucky.