England Quotes - Page 18

It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.

Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in.

In England pensions used to be given to aristocrats, because aristocrats had political influence, in order to corrupt them. Here pensions are given to the great democratic mass, because they have political power, to corrupt them.

Poor England! thou art a devoted deer, Beset with every ill but that of fear. The nations hunt; all mock thee for a prey; They swarm around thee, and thou stand'st at bay.

Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree.

If you want to propose marriage to your girlfriend and you live in England and she is in Sicily, do the decent thing and walk down there. Travelling by car or aeroplane wouldn't be right at such a moment.

It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'.

It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.

I've noticed in England once people reach a certain level they feel they have to get married.

England and the United States are natural allies, and should be the best of friends.

To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.

If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.

Glen Johnson is an England international in the making. Although he has already played for England .

In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.

My accent has changed my whole life. When I was younger it was very Nigerian, then when we went to England it was very British.

England has had a lot of really bad periods of music, but it's had several amazing periods where they've found an incredible balance, not just between music that's a rather complex and also pretty direct. Like the Beatles.

I grew up in the early '70s in New England.

That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.

Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.

I like to score a proper goal, you know - a passing move.

The spirit he has shown has been second to none. (on Terry Fenwick's drunk-driving charge)

What’s this here,” he said suspiciously, “about us got to give you faggots?” Oh, we have to have them,” said Newt, “We burn them.” Say what?” We burn them.” The guard’s face broadened into a grin. And they’d told him England was soft. “Right on!” he said

I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.

I never really wondered about getting from London to Lahaul. It all seemed such a natural progression. In London I felt I was in the wrong place and wanted to leave. I'd thought about going to Australia or New Zealand. It's nothing against England, but I knew I wasn't meant to be there.

England offers new comforts. I could write a novel there.