England famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.
-- A. P. Herbert -
A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
-- Ada Leverson -
Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.
-- Agatha Christie -
English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
-- Agnes Repplier -
The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
-- Agnes Repplier -
When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.
-- Alan Rickman -
England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.
-- Alan Rickman -
No money in the world can buy a white England shirt.
-- Alan Shearer -
I still get butterflies when England are playing.
-- Alan Shearer -
There is a lot of luck in football. Following England is like following Wycombe Wanders or Leyton Orient. You hope for the best and hope you are lucky.
-- Alan Sugar -
By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.
-- Alex Garland -
In England, 'Doctor Who' has always been considered a children's show, at least by children.
-- Alex Kingston -
Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!
-- Alexander Smith -
It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.
-- Alfred Douglas -
People tell me that I am well-grounded. I am sane in the New England sense of the word.
-- Ali MacGraw -
In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.
-- Alice Duer Miller -
It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.
-- Alice Hamilton -
I loved living in Hollywood - and the weather there was just fantastic - but there is something about rural England, and especially Suffolk and Norfolk, that pulls at my heartstrings.
-- Amanda Donohoe -
PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.
-- Andrew Eldritch -
I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.
-- Andrew Eldritch -
I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!
-- Andrew Solomon -
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.
-- Andrew Wiles -
I was a star in England, but Ive never been a star in America. Now I am.
-- Anna Lee -
I've always felt that English women had to be approached in a sisterly manner, rather than an erotic manner.
-- Anthony Burgess -
My life changed incredibly when I moved from Holland to England.
-- Anton Corbijn -
If they had offered me James Bond, I probably couldn't have gone to England anymore in my life. James Bond with an accent? That would have been something.
-- Antonio Banderas -
Nowhere in the world do supporters love their clubs more than in England. England is paradise to play in.
-- Arjen Robben -
In England, football is important for everybody.
-- Arsene Wenger -
The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.
-- Arthur Murray -
O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm Of green days telling with a quiet beat.
-- Arthur Quiller-Couch -
...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.
-- Baroness Orczy -
Poland nil, England nil, though England are now looking the better value for their nil.
-- Barry Davies -
In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me.
-- Ben Kingsley -
The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
The enterprise of America precedes that of Europe, as the industry of England precedes that of the rest of Europe.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
-- Benjamin Haydon -
The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution , there were no limits (save for the effect of trail by jury) to what the legislature might do.
-- Bernard Bailyn -
In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.
-- Bernard Bailyn -
Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory.
-- Bernie Taupin -
In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English.
-- Bertrand Barere -
I just do my act. If people in England don't get my joke I make fun of myself for telling it.
-- Bill Burr -
We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
-- Bill Shankly -
There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.
-- Bill Vaughan -
The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.
-- Bill Vaughan -
We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.
-- Bill Vaughan -
Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
-- Bill Vaughan -
I feel so bad about my MBE now that I am going to tie it around my cat.
-- Bill Vaughan -
The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.
-- Billy Campbell -
I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.
-- Bjork -
Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.
-- Bob Marley -
As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister
-- Boris Johnson -
Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.
-- Boyle Roche -
We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
-- Bram Stoker -
The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well.
-- Brenda Blethyn -
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
-- Brendan Behan -
Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.
-- Brian Eno -
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.
-- C. S. Forester -
I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.
-- C. S. Lewis -
That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.
-- Charles Babbage -
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
-- Charles Babbage -
Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.
-- Charles Churchill -
I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.
-- Charles Keating, Jr. -
Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I
-- Charles Kingsley -
Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.
-- Charles Stewart Parnell -
Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England.
-- Charles Sturt -
I got the O.B.E because I represent England outside of England more...but thinking of me as an actor, I haven't done all the classical theatre, all the great roles. Think of Helen Mirren and me. Helen, who I adore, is a friend - should be Dame. I am the rebel, the revolutionary on the side.
-- Charlotte Rampling -
I am not qualified to be a Dame. To be Dame you have to represent England in a way that I don't.
-- Charlotte Rampling -
In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.
-- Chiwetel Ejiofor -
Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.
-- Chris Barber -
In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing.
-- Christopher Nolan -
When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious and cruel than the Americans. So I have been extremely guarded ever since.
-- Claire Bloom -
The weather in England can really darken your spirits.
-- Claire Forlani -
I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.
-- Claire Forlani -
There's not a big gun culture in England at all still.
-- Clive Owen -
Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.
-- Clive Owen -
Drink up, England... I WANT your liver to fail. Smoke up England, I WANT you to die.
-- CM Punk -
In England, pop art and fine art stand resolutely back to back.
-- Colin MacInnes -
Me? As England's answer to Jonah Lomu? Joanna Lumley, more likely.
-- Damian Hopley -
In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!'
-- Damian Lewis -
I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States.
-- Danica Patrick -
England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.
-- Daniel Day-Lewis -
Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England.
-- Daniel Defoe -
When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was.
-- Daniel J. Boorstin -
I don't know an England player who could fix a light bulb, let alone a match
-- Darren Gough -
I have an English family and I've lived in England for years.
-- Daryl Hall -
This team [England] has some of the best players in England
-- David Beckham -
I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.
-- David Cameron -
I'd rather be in the heart of Africa in the will of God, than on the throne of England, out of the will of God.
-- David Livingstone -
And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed.
-- David Thewlis -
No more watching that show Small England or whatever it's called where those two idiots dress up as 'laydees'. It's a bad influence.
-- David Walliams -
I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.
-- Davy Jones -
I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life
-- Debra Messing
