England Quotes

I come from a family of pacifists, so it's not like I was going to join the war. Sweden is not like the States or England where you might get sent to Afghanistan next month.

The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.

I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish."

The British love permanence more than they love beauty.

For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.

He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.

I think people in England take things for granted, we complain about our NHS system and yes it's not perfect but believe me it's far better than what they've got here.

I think the best place to work in football is England.

England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.

The law of England is a law of liberty .

I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been.

According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary threat.

In England people are very proud of being very stupid.

In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.

The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" in order to avoid libel suits.

In England we see people lulled sleep with solid and elaborate discourses of piety, who would be warmed and transported out of themselves by the bellowings and distortions of enthusiasm.

In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.

They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood.

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

When I was 13, when I was 14, when I was in England, yeah all I wanted to do was go and see The Who, go and see The Stones.

The laws of England will protect the rights of British subjects, and give a remedy for a grievance committed by one British subject upon another, in whatever country that may be done.

I am still young and being the [England] squad is really good for me although I've still got a lot to learn.

England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'.

Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers

Equally, though, there are guys who play England Under 19 who don't even play First Class cricket. It is a watershed in the careers in many ways.

The big difference in those days was that in England the Government subsidized TV, in America we work on TV so we can subsidize the Government.

When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval.

He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.

They must go for it now as they have nothing to lose but the match.

I am very proud and honour-red to be the England manager.

The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left--the King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.

In a few years there will be only five kings in the world the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.

The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world.

The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land.

We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources.

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England

There have been more things wrong with England than just Wayne Rooney in the last few years.

Catch a boat to England baby, maybe to Spain. Wherever I have gone, wherever I've been and gone, wherever I have gone... The blues are all the same.

When you beat England at Twickenham you don't feel the need to make changes to a winning side, but there are areas we think we can improve

There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.

I'm not the type of person to go into depression after defeat.

England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee!

To say that I haven't been motivated to play is absolute nonsense.

The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England

Growing up in England, I was constantly surrounded by the Arthurian legend.

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.