England Quotes - Page 24

England was never my home. I had a home there but Dublin is my home so leaving Ireland was the hardest thing I had to do.

He's a winner. There's no doubt about that, and it's stating the obvious to say that he's a tremendous talent. (on David Beckham)

Discipline is not only very important, it's crucial.

If I am going to be the future bloody Queen of England I'm going to wear that dress once because I'm giving up the rest of my life, all of my privacy. At least I can get a new dress every day!

I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that's vanished - the England of my childhood has actually disappeared.

I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me it is like a mythical place.

But I really wanted to find it for you. And when it looked in the end like it wasn't going to turn up, I just said to myself, one day I'll go to Norfolk and I'll find it there for her.' 'The lost corner of England,' I said.

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in his fat fists.

When I go home to England, my friends all make fun of me for sounding American.

My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are so exposed and can't fight against it.

It's very hard to imagine the phrase "consumer society" used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.

My, I get so depressed after a poor meal; that's why I can never stay in England for more than a week.

Scotland is a great country and many wonderful things have come out of this country, however England gets the glory.

Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.

"The Church of England," I said, seeing that Mr. Inglesant paused, "is no doubt a compromise."

We have in England a particular bashfulness in every thing that regards religion.

We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.

No one is better at not beating America than England.

How did Madison get separation through Virginia and later Congress? The Baptists, the Presbyterians, and the smaller sects hated Jefferson; to them he was a secularist of the worst kind. But Madison could get Jefferson's bill passed because the Baptists, the Presbyterians, and smaller sects who were excluded in New England and in the South got together for their own protection.

Politicians don't really bring up religion in England.

Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

I have dual citizenship; I would be happy to go to England. I would be very happy to go to America.

Everybody I know in England was raised on Mose Allison.

Whoever heard a man of fortune in England talk of the necessaries of life? . . . Whether we can afford it or no, we must have superfluities.