England Quotes
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Scotland is the Canada of England!
Rainn Wilson -
In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
V. S. Naipaul
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We are accustomed in England to chalk in rolling downs, except where bitten into by the sea, but elsewhere it is riven and presents cliffs, and these cliffs are not at all like that of Shakespeare at Dover but overhang, where hard beds alternate with others that are friable.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
A. J. P. Taylor -
I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don't really have those in England yet.
Roger Taylor Duran Duran -
O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
I used to joke that I came to England - not to the U.S. where most Koreans go - because I like Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.
Ha-Joon Chang -
It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.
Bosie
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The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.
Caleb Cushing -
There's a rumor going around that I'm Miss Goody-two-shoes from Australia. Well, that's a laugh. I'm really Miss Goody-two-shoes from England!
Olivia Newton-John -
I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.
Edmund White -
To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
Edie Campbell -
An overview of all wars since the establishment of the Bank of England in 1694 suggests that most of them would have been greatly reduced in severity, or perhaps not even fought at all, without fiat money.
G. Edward Griffin -
I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.
Uta Hagen
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I love England but everything that has happened makes me realise that I would be better off in the States.
Heather Mills -
I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
J. Philippe Rushton -
Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
Iggy Pop -
The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
Malcolm Gladwell -
Most commonly, I've been recognized from people who aren't actually from England.
Maisie Williams -
I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables.
Arsene Wenger
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England is a nation of shopkeepers.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
Francesca Annis -
I am as passionate about the England team as anyone.
Wayne Rooney -
It makes me wonder what belonging to a place means. Charles died a Russian in Paris. Viktor called it wrong and was a Russian in Vienna for fifty years, then Austrian, then a citizen of the Reich, and then stateless. Elisabeth kept Dutch citizenship in England for fifty years. And Iggie was Austrian, then American, then an Austrian living in Japan. You assimilate, but you need somewhere else to go. You keep your passport to hand. You keep something private.
Edmund de Waal