England Quotes - Page 17

Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.

You humiliate a rich person and they're still rich. You humiliate a brilliant person and they're still smart. A person who is well connected is still the king of England. But if you humiliate a young person, you take away the only form of power they have.

I had a very colorless background, and when I left Ohio and moved to England, nobody knew who I was and I had a real freedom. I could be free to experiment and experience things and I liked that a lot.

All I would say is, that I can go abroad without your family coming forward to favour me, - in short, with a parting Shove of their cold shoulders; and that, upon the whole, I would rather leave England with such impetus as I possess, than derive any acceleration of it from that quarter.

Players only understand substitutions when they become managers.

I left England when I was four because I found out I could never be King.

The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.

He's not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)

The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)

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.

Clark Terry is an American Master. I love to listen to him, particularly 'Mumbles.' I was so delighted when we received degrees together, along with Edward Kennedy, at the New England Conservatory in 1997.

People tell me that I am well-grounded. I am sane in the New England sense of the word.

England still will be here without you.

English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.

The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end.

England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame and will get war.

There are bitter weeds in England.

I cannot speak your england.

To England will I steal, and there I'll steal.

An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England.

Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!

That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.

Right joyous are we to behold your face, Most worthy brother England; fairly met!

You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.