England Quotes
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England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.
Alan Rickman
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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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Today the sort of thing for a guy in England growing up is that you have to suppress all your emotions. It's almost like you have to sit back and be cool.
Freddie Highmore
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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
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Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
Tom Stoppard
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...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World War II -- and Germany did the same thing to England.
Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
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This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
William Shakespeare
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One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.
Sara Willis
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This Australian side is an amazing side. England are a very good team, but Australia are better. The records of the individuals alone reveal that. But we gained a lot of respect for England.
B. R. Hayden
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I begin to suspect that England is the most melancholy country in the world.
Natalia Ginzburg
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There are lots of beautiful areas in England, and I am lucky enough to live in a stunning part of a very beautiful area.
Paloma Faith
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I have English family in Northhampton and have been to England numerous times.
Steve Kanaly
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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?
Benjamin Kowalewicz Billy Talent
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There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.
Oscar Wilde
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England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
Victor Hugo
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The Conservatives played like England cricketers - too many rash strokes and run-outs, dropped catches and bowling anywhere but the stumps.
Norman Tebbit
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There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.
Francis Bacon
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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.
Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans
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Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.
Kevin Spacey
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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.
Andy Gibb
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I feel so bad about my MBE now that I am going to tie it around my cat.
Bill Vaughan
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The air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe, and so everyone who breathes it becomes free. Everyone who comes to this island is entitled to the protection of English law, whatever oppression he may have suffered and whatever may be the colour of his skin.
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
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It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.
William Shakespeare
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There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.
William Shakespeare