England Quotes - Page 25

I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.

England is the Mother of Parliaments

It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.

I don't make promises, I promise results.

I love a good fitted suit. England is known for men who can wear good suits.

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

Most of the time we've been living in England and now we've bought an apartment in New York which we absolutely love.

There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers.

To the Japanese, Portugal and Russia are neutral enemies, England and America are belligerent enemies, and Germany and her satellites are friendly enemies. They draw very fine distinctions.

As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.

To be in Brazil and see the work of Os Gêmeos or to be in England and see what Banksy is doing is pretty fascinating to me.

England's bowlers have improved, I'll give them that.

A team of British lawyers has now concluded that the Declaration of Independence was illegal, and the American colonies had no right to secede from England. Well, you thought our court system was backed up.

I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where I'm from. I wouldn't move back there, but it's funny when you spend a bit of time in the place where you were brought up. You kind of realize how that place has had quite a big effect on you or made you a certain way.

I really wanted to get out of England.

But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

You have to be physical - that's the way it is in a midfield in the modern game.

Physically and mentally I'm stronger right now because an injury is not playing on my mind all the time.

My life is really so much based in England.

I have an apartment back home in London. England will be home for me. It always has been and always will be. It's where my friends are.

In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally less violent.

X-Files wasnt a big show in England.

I imported the first Mac into England in 1984; you know, the beige box. I imported what I think were the first four that came into England. I never opened the instruction manual. That was the best thing about it.

My first show, in England, was called Soldier, Soldier.

I regularly sell out more in England than I do in America.