England Quotes
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The England manager job is not for me - I'm very happy wih what I'm doing in French football for now.
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Personally, I prepare exactly the same for every game: I don't think, "I'm going to have to do extra here because of what they think of us." But if you're an England player you do tend to be told how much everyone hates you.
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The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.
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I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.
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Before there was any chance to go to England, I changed schools, and it was rugby from there on in.
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By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.
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England? England is in London right?
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Just getting out of your town seems to be a pervasive thing in England. But I don't want to keep grinding the axe forever, it's boring.
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I'd rather that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober. With freedom we might in the end attain sobriety, but in the other alternative we should eventually lose both freedom and sobriety.
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We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
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The law of England is a very strange one; it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth. . . . But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.
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I think England has been in the long-term damaged by Britishness.
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I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.
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What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?
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The law of England is a law of liberty .
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It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this." I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself. "Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea." "The board-schools." "Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future.
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I don't know about England so much, but in Germany and some of these other countries, the pink was something that they liked. For those kids, the pink and black and the whole look with the sunglasses and the leather jacket was the right kind of hero they could get behind, and I think that really set me apart from everyone else.
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I understand that the worst people in England at a time were ran to America, for some reason.
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A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.
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In some ways England is more liberal than France, but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you have to accept the ways of where you live. I have to respect that.
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England is an incredible breeding ground for talent, yet it finds it really hard to sustain it or keep it. Once you obtain any kind of success or you step off the island, your ambitions become bigger.
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Your character - you own it. That's something you have to grab hold of on 'This Is England'. Your character is your character.
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Coffee as drunk in England, debilitates the stomach, and produces a slight nausea ... it is usually made from bad Coffee, served out tepid and muddy, and drowned in a deluge of water.
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All I would say is, that I can go abroad without your family coming forward to favour me, - in short, with a parting Shove of their cold shoulders; and that, upon the whole, I would rather leave England with such impetus as I possess, than derive any acceleration of it from that quarter.
