England Quotes
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
If I should die think only this of me that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.
Land of hope and glory Mother of the Free How shall we extol thee who are borne of thee? Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set God who made thee mighty make thee mightier yet.
Remember that you are an Englishman and consequently have won first prize in the lottery of life.
The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: The one thinks everything right that is French the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.
The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
There will always be an England While there's a country lane Wherever there's a cottage small Beside a field of grain.
In England I would rather be a man a horse a dog or a woman in that order. In America I think the order would be reversed.
England is the paradise of individuality eccentricity heresy anomalies hobbies and humours.
In the end it may well be that Britain will be more honoured by the historians for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.
Socialism has been preached for so long the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.
Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.
No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British which amazes Americans who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.
We are articulate but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence. But after the silence he sometimes says something.
One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humour.
The British are just as keen to make money as the Americans but they prefer hypocrisy to a blatantly commercial attitude.
If I should die think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England.
For he might have been a Rooshian A French or Turk or Proosian Or perhaps Italian. But in spite of all temptations To belong to other nations He remains an Englishman.
What have I done for you England my England? What is there I would not do England my own?
Far too many people—many of them academics, many politicians—continue to jabber about a supposed 'special relationship' between our two coun
Eight years in the Wolston academy and I knew it all came down to the next 90 minutes.
Before there was any chance to go to England, I changed schools, and it was rugby from there on in.