England Quotes

The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.

If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine.

I've got my own targets... To establish myself in the team and once you are a regular for Liverpool then England, recognition comes from that and hopefully this will prove the case.

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.

It's to remind our lads who they're playing for, and to remind the opposition who they're playing against. (on the 'This Anfield' plaque)

I am not qualified to be a Dame. To be Dame you have to represent England in a way that I don't.

There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen.

I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables.

Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy.

There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.

Each decision will be done on a case-by-case basis and we'll make the decision we feel is best for the New England Patriots football team.

I begin to suspect that England is the most melancholy country in the world.

Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

I come from a generation in England that considered making money or trying to promote yourself to be morally suspect.

Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

The British are so incestuous. They pass around partners like they're passing popcorn at a movie.

When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.

The Who, England's most self-conscious band, have released 'Quadrophenia,' which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility.

Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?

He's fantastic on the ground but obviously he is very tall. (on Peter Crouch)

Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.

The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.

The last positive thing England did for cricket was to invent it.

In England the more horses a nobleman has, the more popular he is. So long as the English are devoted to racing, Socialism has no chance with you.

The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.

If England was what England seems, An not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an' paint, 'Ow quick we'd chuck 'er! But she ain't!

Before, I said that they were maybe the best supporters in England. Now maybe they are the best supporters in Europe.

For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.

The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations.

England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.

I'm a hard-mouthed north-eastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England.

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

I am already bound unto an husband, which is the kingdom of England.

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

When you beat Arsenal, they are a good three points.

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

A bomb under the West car park at Twickenham on an international day would end fascism in England for a generation.

Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

When all is said, its atmosphere [England's] still contains fewer germs of aggression and brutality per cubic foot in a crowded bus, pub or queue than in any other country in which I have lived

The most exciting thing in England is a pigeon or foxes, which isn't very interesting to watch because everyone knows what they do. But I've taken pictures of them. Just for practice.

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.

Finding a master of the dark art of ninjutsu in modern westernized Japan seems as unlikely as finding an active practitioner of the magic of Merlin in contemporary industrialized England.

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.

Welcome to Bologna on Capital Gold for England versus San Marino with Tennent's Pilsner, brewed with Czechoslovakian yeast for that extra Pilsner taste and England are one down!

At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States

When I was seven I wanted to be a footballer, but when I was 14, I wanted to be a model. Look where it's put me now!

Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.

As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film before that weren't being brutalized or playing slaves.