England Quotes
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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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God be thanked we were not bred up in that communion but are of a Church that is pious and sincere, and conformable in all its principles to the Scriptures. ... the Church of England is, without all doubt, the only true Church.
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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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We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.
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In England, if you commit a crime, the police don’t have a gun and you don’t have a gun. If you commit a crime, the police will say “Stop, or I’ll say stop again.
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In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.
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Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.
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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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I'm proud, privileged, and overwhelmed by how many times I've played for England.
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England picked a rookie coach to coach a team at the World Cup.
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It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.
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I think it was the occasion of the final psychological break with Great Britain, in a way that had clearly not happened to that date, especially in New England and to som degree in the South.
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What I say about 'This Is England' is they're like my best friends back home. Normal, working-class, beautiful people who I'm creative with.
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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.
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We have experienced the truth of this prophecy, for England has become the habitation of outsiders and the dominion of foreigners. Today, no Englishman is earl, bishop, or abbott, and newcomers gnaw away at the riches and very innards of England; nor is there any hope for an end of this misery.
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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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We'd played for years to half-empty clubs in England.
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To me, England is past its sell-by date. It's not the country I grew up in.
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Germany will militarize herself out of existence, England will expand herself out of existence, and America will spend herself out of existence.
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England's just very cynical. Like I am. Like we all are.
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We've seen in the papers that we've been smashed by England. All credit to them: they played fantastically well. But if we actually dissect exactly what happened, it came down to a couple of edgy draws and a game where we were beaten by two runs. It was a lot closer than everyone made out.
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My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.
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I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor.
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The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion.
