England Quotes

When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.

Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

Growing up in England, of course you do absorb certain ways the royals wave their hands and carry themselves. Like most girls, I fantasized about being some sort of a princess.

England have players who can rattle anyone's feathers

Although we lost it has been a great Test and one of the best I have ever played in. Hopefully the next one will be exactly the same.

It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, "maybe there is a huck or two in here I haven't thought of".

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.

The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them.

I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test

When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.

While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?

England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

I am gonna go into my coaching badges after my England days are finished and I have the time on my international break.

I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

London is a roost for every bird.

The Church in England is the Church of England.

Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England.

Poor Wales. So far from Heaven, so close to England.

If you can't outplay the opposition, you must outnumber them.

Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S.

I do appreciate that the most important thing as manager is to get good results.

I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.

When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.

I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

England are learning to walk before they can run with their feet nailed firmly to the ground.

I'm afraid I haven't become a born-again Christian. I'm sort of 'Church of England, lapsed' is about as far as I go.

To do something for someone or something you loved-England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history-wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.

Me? As England's answer to Jonah Lomu? Joanna Lumley, more likely.

England is a very strong league, with three or four of the best teams in Europe, but, if I had played there, I would have destroyed it, like I have everywhere else.

For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.

Some people in England only have their wheelie bins collected once a fortnight. Their suffering is unimaginable.

England expects every man to do his duty

Pffft, English. Who needs that? I'm never going to England.

I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these kids that all of a sudden can't afford the ticket prices.

We stay as a team. I might be England captain, but that doesn't mean I get treated differently.

A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class.

England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha!

What Americans call cross-ventilation, the English call draughts.

We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets.

I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England.

In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.

I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.

My goals in Holland were known as 'stiffies', which means something quite different in England of course.

I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don't really have those in England yet.

There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.

In England, you're allowed to have an opinion - as long as it comes out of your mouth.

Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.