England Quotes

There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.

It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.

Utopia's quite another land; In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements

In Scotland football hooliganism has been met by banning alcohol from grounds but in England this solution has been circumnavigated

It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'.

Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!

The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly.

Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England

I am as passionate about the England team as anyone.

The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait; O Shepherdess of England's fold, Behold this gate of pearl and gold!

England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?

Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree.

Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.

Poor England! thou art a devoted deer, Beset with every ill but that of fear. The nations hunt; all mock thee for a prey; They swarm around thee, and thou stand'st at bay.

Right joyous are we to behold your face, Most worthy brother England; fairly met!

An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England.

Now the time is come, That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest, And let her head fall into England's lap.

In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.

Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!

That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.

Cheerily to sea; the signs of war advance: No king of England, if not king of France

I cannot speak your england.

It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.

This blessèd plot, this earth, this realm, this England This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, . . . This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land.

To England will I steal, and there I'll steal.

O England! Model to thy inward greatness, like little body with a might heart.

You gotta have some balls to be a female PM in England

I think the [New England] Patriots' season should have an asterisk next to it because everything they're accomplishing is against teams coached by people other than me.

The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end.

Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.

Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare, but the Bible made England.

England will still be England, an everlasting animal stretching into the future and the past, and, like all living things, having the power to change out of recognition and yet remain the same.

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him.

Though I love my country I do not love my countrymen.

What should they know of England who only England know?

I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.

I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so -bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say "This was their finest hour."

Froth at the top dregs at bottom but the middle excellent.

fights you on patriotic principles he robs you on business principles he enslaves you on imperial principles.

You are my one and only, for all eternity.

on a bike ride through the Surrey Lanes, pedalling in my cotton dress through the hot fields blushing with poppies, freewheeling down a sudden dip into a cool wooded sanctum.

If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called "Damn It".

The only good thing about that decision, Gatt, is that I'll get tea before you.

I never could believe that Providencehad sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, andmillions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.

I can't tell you how terribly glad I am that you're going to be all right, " George said, rather thickly. "I...I wouldn't know how to act without a twin.

He had always despised people who thought about the past. To live was to leave behind

I've never been thrown out of a pub, but I've fallen into quite a few