Top 100 Quotes About England
#1. To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.
Trevor McDonald
#2. I like hot weather. I think it might be a bit better if England was a bit hotter.
Freddie Highmore
#3. New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions.
Henry Cabot Lodge
#4. I've got absolutely no desire or intention of damaging England.
Nicola Sturgeon
#5. As Richard mounted his horse to follow, some of his Household protested that he must not wear into battle the helmet with the golden crown, for it would mark him as the prime target for the enemy. Quietly Richard replied that he would live, and die, King of England.
Paul Murray Kendall
#6. I view every game I play for England as it could be my last, so I go out there and enjoy it. It's the only way I can approach it.
Graham Thorpe
#7. We are looking to get counties to play their young England players earlier, and the first reports from the counties are that it is working well. It also helps us to prepare in a better fashion.
Andy Pick
#8. When I graduated from high school, I made the decision to pursue my dance training in London, England. I was so scared at first, not knowing if this little girl from small town Canada could possibly make it with these highly trained London dancers.
Catherine Mary Stewart
#9. England's bowlers have improved, I'll give them that.
Jeff Thomson
#10. I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.
Davy Jones
#11. 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!
William Blake
#12. Romney Marsh remains one of the last great wildernesses of south-east England. Flat as a desert, and at times just as daunting, it is an odd, occasionally eerie wetland straddling the coastal borders of Kent and Sussex, rich in birds, local folklore and solitary medieval churches.
David Hewson
#13. In England, you're allowed to have an opinion - as long as it comes out of your mouth.
Jamie Oliver
#14. In England, at least, corruption only became unfashionable (and in fact only started to be called "corruption") when there started to be other, faster ways to get rich.
Paul Graham
#15. What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university.
Mark Shields
#16. When I was 26 or 27, I gave up journalism. I came to England after my mom died, to let serendipity take its course. And I just found myself back in journalism again.
Heather Brooke
#17. After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.
Kurt Student
#18. For years they've grumbled that England is a cesspool governed by an immoral king under the spell of the Whore of Babylon, which is their cute nickname for the pope.
Sarah Vowell
#19. But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.
Minnie Driver
#20. In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.
Russell Brand
#21. Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Carolyn Weber
#22. It's essential that we learn how to defend the Bible and the Christian faith for our sake and our children's. If we don't, the empty and obsolete churches in England will foreshadow the future in America.
Ken Ham
#23. If King Harold had had swans on his side, England would still be Saxon.
Connie Willis
#24. The very sight of a daffodil still makes me shiver, because spring in the north of England is always so bitter.
Bea Davenport
#25. Paul Scholes should be included in England's Euro 2012 squad.
Harry Redknapp
#26. The poorest man in his cottage may bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter; the rain may enter - but the King of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!
Barbara W. Tuchman
#28. The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.
Oscar Wilde
#29. Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.
Rupert Everett
#30. I live in Santa Barbara. My wife's American, and she lived in England for 11 years and then told me she'd had enough.
Martin Gore
#31. A recent study of three thousand New England high-school kids shows that students with B averages or better enjoyed seventeen to thirty-three minutes more sleep and went to bed ten to fifty minutes earlier than students with C averages.
Roger Angell
#32. My England captaincy was not the England captaincy I wanted, that's what will live with me for a long time.
Kevin Pietersen
#33. I promise myself great pleasure from my visit to England. You know I am to stay with Dickens while in London; and beside his own very agreeable society, I shall enjoy that of the most noted literary men of the day, which will be a great gratification to me.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#34. I went to Australia from England when I was right at that age when you learn to read. It's a very confronting thing, traveling halfway around the world and having a mother who was deeply unhappy at ending up in Australia, so you look for some way to find comfort, I guess, and I found it in books.
Terry Hayes
#35. An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows ... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.
Bill Bryson
#36. Language and History in Viking Age England: Language Relations between Speakers of Old Norse and Old English (Turnbout, 2002).
F. Donald Logan
#37. There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.
Agatha Christie
#38. Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve.
Emeril Lagasse
#39. Most of the inhabitants of India do not mind how India is governed. Nor are the lower animals of England concerned about England, but in the tropics the indifference is more prominent, the inarticulate world is closer at hand and readier to resume control as soon as men are tired.
E. M. Forster
#40. In England, I'm this venerable old granddad, the one who always gets pissed at parties and puts a lampshade on his head.
Fatboy Slim
#41. Oh, to be in England, now that England's gone. This World Service, this little bakelite gateway into the world of Sidney Box, Charters and Caldecott, Mazawattee tea, Kennedy's Latin Primer and dark, glistening streets. An
Stephen Fry
#42. When I started off in England, HMV or Tower Records would come to meetings and be, like, 'We just don't know what this genre is.' I don't really fit in between Rihanna and Beyonce.
M.I.A.
#43. I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.
Richard Cobden
#44. England is a very popular foreign country to visit because the people there speak some English.
Dave Barry
#45. Language itself is so value-laden as to render value-neutrality almost impossible. Growing up in England I was introduced to the American Revolution by a 'footnote' to colonial history about the 'revolt' of the American colonies. Word choice and the organization of material gave the game away.
Arthur F. Holmes
#46. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this. Mrs. Southcott
Charles Dickens
#47. The love of independence is a sentiment that surely none would wish to see erased from the breast of man, though the parish law of England, it must be confessed, is a system of all others the most calculated gradually to weaken this sentiment, and in the end may eradicate it completely.
Thomas Malthus
#48. Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap.
Jeanette Winterson
#49. I am a big fan of music and clothing style of the 1960s. Whether in England or the United States, I like everything from that time.
Robert Pattinson
#50. For a fair maid of England hath told me
That the crows are departed the Tower.
So I'll seek for my bailiwick elsewhere,
Sniffing out some new dungheap of power.
Paul Christensen
#51. Richard knew, of course, that his was thought to be an unlucky title; only twice before had a Richard ruled England, and both met violent ends.
Sharon Kay Penman
#52. I am gonna go into my coaching badges after my England days are finished and I have the time on my international break.
Steven Gerrard
#53. Whether splendidly isolated or dangerously isolated, I will not now debate; but for my part, I think splendidly isolated, because the isolation of England comes from her superiority.
Wilfrid Laurier
#54. The standard has gone up, whether that's down to the split divisions or more professionalism. People are raising the bar and wanting to emulate the England team.
Stuart Law
#55. Hendrix was big in England. We all became good friends and I am still in touch with Noel Redding.
Jimmy Carl Black
#56. Money plays an important role in football, but it is not the dominating factor. When Chelsea play a Carling Cup game in a small city, and it could result in a draw - the excitement, the spirit, the atmosphere - that's the real beauty of football in England.
Roman Abramovich
#57. Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.
Charles Caleb Colton
#58. England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.
George Orwell
#59. Unfortunately in my case, because of what I do for living, here in Ireland is very hard for me to find a doctor who can just deal with me as a person, that can get beyond Sinead O'Connor. I had to go to England to find a psychiatrist for my case.
Sinead O'Connor
#60. If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.
Mark Twain
#61. Her unusual dark hair and sultry eyes made her stand out--- Anne Boleyn was Tudor England's Angelina Jolie amid a sea of Reese Witherspoons.
Kris Waldherr
#62. My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.
Olivia Newton-John
#63. At the moment there are some England players who are the stars of their club teams, but not for their country. It's difficult to explain.
Diego Maradona
#64. Wimbledon attracted Bill Clinton to the gallery at Centre Court Tuesday at the All England Club. NBC cameras showed his head turning back and forth with each volley. Even at a tennis match, it looks like he's denying everything.
Argus Hamilton
#65. If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.
Otis Redding
#66. Growing up in Boston, I was always Matt, Son of Former New England Patriot Don. And then when my brother Tim was a senior in high school, I became Matt, Brother of Tim.
Matt Hasselbeck
#67. In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.
Thomas Day
#68. I've always felt England was a great place for a comic to work. It's an island and the audience can't run very far.
Bob Hope
#69. The really heroic thing about Nick Hornby is that he lives in north London and rarely leaves it ... Every English writer needs their corner that is forever England - but only a few brave men choose to make that corner Highbury.
Zadie Smith
#70. Seditious libel is the doctrine that flourished in England during and after the Star Chamber. It is the hallmark of closed societies throughout the world. Under it, criticism of government is viewed as defamation and punished as a crime.
Harry Kalven
#71. Georgian England was very radical; there were all these new revolutionary ideas, and I think women had more freedom than they did later on.
Marion Bailey
#72. An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.
Philip Warren Anderson
#73. The Small Faces are thought to be a one-hit wonder in America because we only had 'Itchycoo Park.' Then the Faces just had 'Stay with Me.' So both bands could be considered one-hit wonders in America, even though we had several huge hits in England.
Ian McLagan
#74. It can remind you of the bias of provincial New England, whose higher culture has been so exclusively one of books that it has grown incapable even of appraising the worth of other modes of expression
F.O. Matthiessen
#75. There's a lot of good things about England, but I don't want to tell you too many of them.
Michael Clarke
#76. In England, I've never really had a problem with racism.
Didier Drogba
#77. In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.
George Bancroft
#78. It gives me a strange feeling on my skin to think of someone else, someone in England, walking around in my clothes. My clothes seem a part of me, even the ones I've outgrown.
Margaret Atwood
#79. That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.
Matthew Arnold
#80. That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their
mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.
William Shakespeare
#81. She felt a tightness in her chest and sent for Dr Simcox.
'What's the trouble?'
'Look out there, that's the trouble! It's so green and quiet and it's always bloody raining.'
'That's England, Mrs Mallard-Greene. I'm afraid there's no known cure for it.
John Mortimer
#82. The country is an archipelago of lakes,
the lake-country of New England.
Henry David Thoreau
#83. I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.
Karin Slaughter
#84. I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that's vanished - the England of my childhood has actually disappeared.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#85. My shape reminds me a lot of my grandmother, whom I was really close to. She died when I was 13, and we have a really similar body type, the squat New England woman who can roll out dough and bring in your lawnmower. That's kind of the vibe of my body, and I'm into it.
Lena Dunham
#86. The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.
George Bernard Shaw
#87. Nothing is more evident than that Nature hates mind. Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.
Oscar Wilde
#88. There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.
Shimon Peres
#89. I still believe I have a part to play for England.
David Beckham
#90. I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone.
Ray Davies
#91. Manchester has everything but good looks ... , the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
A.J.P. Taylor
#92. No. I told you before, I don't even remember coming through the gate. I woke up in thecemetery, my poor wing snapped, my leg broken, beaten like an orphan kid in regency England. I was a pitiful wee creature."
"Um, okay.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#93. It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, "maybe there is a huck or two in here I haven't thought of".
Gordon Lightfoot
#94. Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.
Lady Gregory
#95. Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her.
Bernhard Von Bulow
#96. England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.
John Florio
#97. Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when I was a girl, so as to be more knowledgeable on the subject, he said, 'Don't you realize that at this moment you know more about prehistoric pottery than any woman in England?'
Agatha Christie
#98. I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England.
Jilly Cooper
#99. Reason to fear that Arminianism, Arianism, and even Socinianism, in destruction to the doctrines of free grace, are daily propagated in the New England colleges.
Jonathan Edwards
#100. A forest - the word dates back to the Norman occupancy, when it meant an area set aside for England's violent new masters to hunt boar and deer - is necessarily larger than a wood. It belonged to the king and was a fit place for his recreation.
John Burnside
