England Quotes

Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.

In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.

I'm not jumping on the Andy Johnson for England bandwagon - I'm driving it!

Occasionally I like a really good pair of shoes. A pair of leather shoes from Gieves & Hawkes in England, Buckshot Brogue, they look really sick.

You wouldn't see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy.

All people seem to want to talk about is the current Ashes series, and whether England are going to reverse the trend of recent series.

England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked during the First World War… I love it.

You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry England, the Blitz

I believe that the Union Flag should change now to reflect the four nations of the United Kingdom - England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales

The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.

I think UKIP [ UK Independence Party] and the BNP [British National Party] are very, very English concerns. If they gather strength they're going to add to this schism between Scotland and England.

I've always felt really good about England. I've always felt really, really good about Britain.

The nice thing about England is that they actually speak English.

It's not that hard to be glamorous in England.

I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.

I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.

I regularly sell out more in England than I do in America.

My first show, in England, was called Soldier, Soldier.

X-Files wasnt a big show in England.

...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.

In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally less violent.

I have an apartment back home in London. England will be home for me. It always has been and always will be. It's where my friends are.

My life is really so much based in England.

You have to be physical - that's the way it is in a midfield in the modern game.

Physically and mentally I'm stronger right now because an injury is not playing on my mind all the time.

I like the 'Cirque du Freak' books - 'Tunnel of Blood' by Darren Shan. They're set in England. It's about vampires.

But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.

I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd been going to there. The last one was taught by monks, and I couldn't wait to get out.

I really wanted to get out of England.

It's weird: The leader of the Conservative Party in England is two years younger than me, and I still don't really feel like a responsible adult.

Researchers in England say tall men are more likely to have more children than short men. Here in America we call that the NBA theory.

England's bowlers have improved, I'll give them that.

To be in Brazil and see the work of Os Gêmeos or to be in England and see what Banksy is doing is pretty fascinating to me.

As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.

The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.

To the Japanese, Portugal and Russia are neutral enemies, England and America are belligerent enemies, and Germany and her satellites are friendly enemies. They draw very fine distinctions.

There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers.

Most of the time we've been living in England and now we've bought an apartment in New York which we absolutely love.

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

Every town in America had at least one, two, or maybe three radio stations that played rock 24 hours a day. In England, we had a rock specialist on for two hours a week.

I love a good fitted suit. England is known for men who can wear good suits.

I don't make promises, I promise results.

It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.

England is the Mother of Parliaments

So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are our children; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.

In the dark days and darker nights when England stood alone-and most men save Englishmen despaired of England's life-he [Churchill] mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

Four guys from England took us all by the hand.

Whoever heard a man of fortune in England talk of the necessaries of life? . . . Whether we can afford it or no, we must have superfluities.