England Quotes

• The popularity of the famous device of the use of lands into England is said to be largely due to the mendicant friars of the then new Orders of St. Dominic and St. Francis, who, arriving in this country, in the first half of the thirteenth century, found themselves hampered by their own vows of poverty, no less than by the growing feeling against Mortmain in acquiring the provision of land absolutely necessary for their rapidly developing work.

  

  Edward Jenks
  • Work
  • Poverty
  • Popularity

• Daily papers in England used to have an entire page of the paper dedicated to what the Beatles had done the day before.

  

  Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
  • England
  • Dedicated
  • The Beatles

• Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go out, and start their working lives By grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Working
  • Garden
  • England

• 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.

  

  Eugene Souleiman
  • Success
  • Ambition
  • Talent

• Mr Palliser was one of those politicians in possessing whom England has perhaps more reason to be proud than of any other of her resources, and who, as a body, give to her that exquisite combination of conservatism and progress which is her present strength and best security for the future.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Proud
  • Security
  • Politicians

• I used to take long walks in England. The second time I went there, it helped me to lose a lot of weight. When I wasn't playing, I used to spend the whole day walking. Going from shop to shop.

  

  Mohammad Azharuddin
  • Walking
  • Playing
  • Weight

• In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.

  

  Jules Verne
  • England
  • Countries
  • Phenomenon

• 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.

  

  William Magee
  • Should
  • Alternatives
  • Sober

• When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didnot like it, and I didnot inhale, and I never tried again.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • England
  • Marijuana

• Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don't mind ending it on a sourer note.

  

  Stephen Merchant
  • England
  • Optimism
  • Ending

• They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Books
  • England
  • Translation

• All the things I've read in my school books about England and the Queen were okay, but my eyes are the greatest book in the world.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Books
  • England
  • Queen

• The ballpoint pen was invented by László Bíró, a Hungarian journalist who fled to Argentina to escape the German occupation of Europe. In 1943 he licensed his invention to the RAF, and the first ballpoint pens were manufactured in Reading, England, by the Miles aircraft manufacturer, to supply pilots with a lasting ink supply!

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • German
  • Escape
  • Journalist

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