England Quotes

• There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • War
  • Three

• I realized that kids everywhere go for the same stuff; and seeing as we'd done it in England, there's no reason why we couldn't do it in America too.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Kids
  • America
  • Stuff

• England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!

  

  William Cowper
  • Country
  • Love
  • Faults

• In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Culture
  • Pretentious
  • Pop Culture

• 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
  • England
  • Teapot

• Remember I've seen a video tape of a Scotland-England match and I've seen him miss a chance from five yards. It was against England and he couldn't score. So what does that say?

  

  Berti Vogts
  • Remember
  • Chance
  • Score

• 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
  • Advice
  • Married
  • Not Care

• There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Cat
  • England
  • Cunning

• There are few places in England where you can get so much wildness and desolation of sea and sandhills, wood, green marsh and grey saltings as at Wells in Norfolk.

  

  William Henry Hudson
  • Green
  • Desolation
  • Wildness

• My heart has always leaned towards England, and with the close friendship of Winston [Churchill], the hero who brought hope to the world, I could not imagine a happier life for myself.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Friendship
  • Imagine
  • My Heart

• England is so surrounded by the boredom of conventionalities, that it is all one to them whether music is good or bad, since they have to hear it from morning till night. For here they have flower-shows with music, dinners with music, sales with music.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Music
  • Sales
  • Conventionalities

• 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

• England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?

  

  William Blake
  • Sleep
  • Ancient
  • Jerusalem

• Boys, as far as England was concerned, were always the hard core. And you just know the guys like it. They want to be you. Some might be attracted to you without knowing it.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Knowing
  • England
  • Hardcore

• England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee!

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Heart
  • Free
  • England

• In searching for further training we turned to England and Bernard Leach. We thought since we had responded to his book so strongly that this would be the sort of training that we would like to have. We saved money, during the summer went to Europe, and the first stop was to go to England, visit the Leach Pottery and ask Leach if he would take us on as apprentices.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Book
  • Training
  • Summer

• I can tell you why I like different countries. Ireland - some of the funniest heckles I've ever gotten. And the last time I did England I did Bristol, Manchester, and then London. The whole country is just amazing to drive through.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Different
  • Country
  • Lasts

• Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.

  

  William Cowper
  • Fame
  • Poet
  • Greece

• I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again.

  

  Roger Taylor Duran Duran
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Reality

• In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Serious

• Industrialization came to England but has since left.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • England
  • Left
  • Industrialization

• The other advantage England have got when Phil Tufnell is bowling is that he isn't fielding

  

  Ian Chappell
  • Advantage
  • England
  • Bowling

• One of the particular things that impressed me was one visitor [of NAACP] - I think it was - it wasn't the Prime Minister of England. We were located then on 14th Street and Fifth Avenue, up several flights of rickety stairs, and he came all the way up those stairs to see Walter [White], largely because of certain kinds of impact, I think, that the Association seemingly was having.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Up
  • Certain
  • Association

• I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that.

  

  William Kidd
  • Care
  • Journey
  • Gunners

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