England Quotes
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The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.
Idris Elba
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Look to your consciences and remember that the theatre of the world is wider than the realm of England.
Mary Queen of Scots
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England, Ireland and Wales will all be strong opposition at home and while it's good from a preparation side of things to have the Tests confirmed, we still have a full Super 12 and home international series ahead of us.
Eddie Charles Jones
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I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.
Alan Rickman
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To England will I steal, and there I'll steal.
William Shakespeare
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Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.
Salman Rushdie
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I never drove in England. I rode bicycles. So driving is terrifying.
Ed Weeks
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I am George Cockcroft. But when I come to England or Europe, where the name Luke Rhinehart is better known, then I use that name.
Luke Rhinehart
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Those who only know England know not England.
Rudyard Kipling
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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.
Eddie Jones
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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.
Zhang Xin
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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.
Jane Austen
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Anyone in England who puts himself forward to be elected to a position of political power is almost bound to be socially or emotionally insecure, or criminally motivated, or mad.
Auberon Waugh
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England have the best fans in the world and Scotlands fans are second to none
Kevin Keegan
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English? Who needs to spend time learning that? I'm never going to England!
Dan Castellaneta
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I bought Jayne Mansfield's mansion in L.A. after her death. I had met her in England and remembered her perfume. When I moved in, I could smell her, and I saw her apparition.
Engelbert Humperdinck
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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.
Tom Stoppard
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Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.
Zola Budd
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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.
Auberon Waugh
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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.
Wilhelm II
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You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry England, the Blitz
Ian Hislop
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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!
Andrew Solomon
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One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.
Sara Willis
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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.
Oscar Wilde