England Quotes

Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose.

William Cowper
- World
- Giving
- Foe
I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish."

Carl Andre
- Up
- House
- Hate

.... Finch, a small and somnolent village set among the rolling hills and the patchwork fields of the Cotswolds, a pastoral haven described in countless guidebooks as one of the prettiest regions in England.

Nancy Atherton
None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the ancient and noble city of Oxford is, of all the towns of England, the likeliest progenitor of unlikely events and persons. But there are limits.

Edmund Crispin
...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion and of his own sympathy.

Emma Orczy
- Emotion
- Sympathy
- Century
The first organised opposition by women to women's suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women.

Millicent Fawcett
Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

Nadine Gordimer
- England
- France
- Diplomats
I do not fear the pressure to win because I spent 14 years in England always fighting for a starting spot, and that's what I want to continue doing.

Ashley Cole