England Quotes
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Sir Clive Woodward summed it up best when he said everyone hates England. And it’s true. Because of the history that is involved, the surrounding countries with the social and historical context, that long-seated rivalry – you can feel that hatred of England.
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When I read or hear of the mutual injuries of England and Ireland, I fancy it would have been a blessed thing had the sea never flowed between the two countries. Had they been all in one, surely there would have been more unity between them of interests and of feelings. But let us hope that days of peace and general enlightenment will arrive by ways past man's finding out.
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I never drove in England. I rode bicycles. So driving is terrifying.
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I'm not the type of person to go into depression after defeat.
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If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.
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I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.
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Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.
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You wouldn't get that in England or America!
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Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.
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Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.
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English? Who needs to spend time learning that? I'm never going to England!
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Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.
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In England, you have stadiums in the middle of the city.
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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.
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This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
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England have the best fans in the world and Scotlands fans are second to none
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Well what else do you do when you're in jolly old England than go on a search for a teapot?
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In England, we have a curious institution called the Church of England. Its strength has always been in the fact that on any moral or political issue it can produce such a wide divergence of opinion that nobody -- from the Pope to Mao Tse-tung -- can say with any confidence that he is not an Anglican. Its weaknesses are that nobody pays much attention to it and very few people attend its functions.
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England must have the mask of Christian peaceableness [peacefulness] torn publicly from her face... Our consuls in Turkey and India, agents, etc. must inflame the whole Muslim world to wild revolt against this hateful, lying, conscienceless people of hagglers. For even if we are to be bled to death, at least England shall lose India.
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I fancy that England is not the only place where married folks disagree, and where there are bad husbands. If one does not care to meet with such cases, one must quit this world. Those wishing to enter the marriage state had better not come to me for advice, for I disapprove of it altogether.
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I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.
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I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!
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I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about.
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One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.
