England Quotes
Human nature defeats me sometimes, how greed and spite can lurk so divisively around the utmost courage and sacrifice.
I’m glad to be eating the bread of freedom even if it does taste like sponge buttered with greasy salt.
The English seem to relish unsystematic learning of this kind, in the same manner that they embarked upon "Grand Tours" of Europe in pursuit of a peripatetic scholarship.
It was William who would climb out of his carriage unafraid and help a farmer drive a herd of cattle or sheep across a road when necessary.
Fifteen feet away, the wide River Thames rolled past, dark and deep and mysterious is the sullen-not-quite sunrise.
As long as you know 'to let' means to rent and not a place to pee, you’re all set to travel in the UK. The lifts and the boots and everything else don’t really matter.
When your ship comes in, don't be in the bathroom with your pants around your ankles." quoted by Frank McNichols, father of Rose McNichols in A Nose for Hanky Panky, a Granite Cove Mystery
And now we both blushed, because things like changing one’s garments should not be discussed among a Queen and one of her subjects.
Once more for Britain, � I said to the empty room. I might not be the Queen everyone wanted me to be, but I was intelligent and fully capable of breaking the code.
Believe me I do understand and I am disgusted by the idea that we should aim for any less for a child from a poor background than a rich one.
History is all around us and you, my lucky few, are living in some of it..
We thought it was nice of you to let him have a go, because, in England, he wouldn't be trusted with a pair of scissors.
By the middle of Henry VIII's reign, the white meats — that is, dairy products — were considered common fare and people from all classes would eat meat whenever they could get it.
When the only exorcise you get is running for a bus, get more buses!
Did you know, ji, ’ Zulu offered, ‘that the map of Tolkien’s Middle earth fits quite well over central England and Wales? Maybe all fairylands are right here, in our midst.
There comes a moment for all of us when our childhood ceases to be an excuse. In your case, I would say that, as with many English, the moment is somewhat delayed.
This is England, " he explained. "Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources.
Dating in England is different. First of all because English people don’t like at all other people knowing them, and second, because English people are romantically impaired.
He'd missed matching wits with her. "Shall we duel with our lips?" "You may find yourself eating grass for breakfast.
Most of my money remains in England, although my unworthy carcass may not under usual circumstances ...
I've never met anyone as kind as you are, except me Mum, o' course." --Benjamin Trimmel to Lady Alexandra.
He shed a lake of blood and murdered a king for a cold, lonely throne.
Last night I dreamt Moses and I were rowing underwater.We could breathe and talk to one another.We rowed past schools of fish and sea anemones and Moses named them for me.”—Jules Finn
Veins of ivy scale stones, find footholds butthe caretaker cuts earth short, peels creepers from Cotswold rock and props the deadhead to head so they won’ttopple like drunkson their moss-soft shadows.
Never had a decent report in his life!" Tony repeated, hardly able to believe the words. He was thinking, in shocked surprise, that even Tante Bettina did not know how mad the English could be.
If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist."(Voltaire)
Crossing the Fens by boat there comes the realisation that water not earth or sky is the natural element in this landscape.
The captains of England and Australia can barely exchange pleasantries these days without a body-language expert immediately declaiming on the angle of their handshakes.
The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightening, plague of locusts...nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey, for the hockey will win.
There is no greater will on earth than the will to survive. These fine people, answering my father's call to arms, had the will in spades and droves. - Lord Tristan Dracanburh, Ethandun
Withstanding the cold develops vigor for the relaxing days of spring and summer. Besides, in this matter as in many others, it is evident that nature abhors a quitter.
What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic pessimism that folks from away find most perplexing
It is not summer, England doesn't have summer, it has continuous autumn with a fortnight's variation here and there.
That's a very murky position, " objected Felix."So's the weather. But this is England, we must learn to live with uncertainty.
In the South of England northerners were regarded then as uncouth, brutish, undisciplined savages ...
Feathers fell from the sky. Like black snow, they drifted onto an old city called Bath.
...the air has that bracing autumnal bite so that all you want to do is bob for apples or hang a witch or something.
Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears prejudices misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.
George III ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.
God save our Gracious King Long live our Noble King God save the King. Send Him victorious Happy and Glorious Long to rule over us God save the King.