England Quotes

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

These marvels were great and comfortable ones, but in the old England there was a greater still. The...

The English may not like music but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman because he'll come sleep...

Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made Englan...

My brothers and sisters of America, there is not the least shadow of hope that India can ever be Chr...

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

Froth at the top dregs at bottom but the middle excellent.

For he might have been a Rooshian A French or Turk or Proosian Or perhaps Italian. But in spite of ...

The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: The one thinks ...

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so -bear ourselves that if the British Empire a...

Some of us are happy with our African hair, thank you very much. I don't want some poor Indian girl'...

Land of hope and glory Mother of the Free How shall we extol thee who are borne of thee? Wider stil...

She grew up in the ordinary paradise of the English countryside. When she was five she walked to sch...

First of all, you must never speak of anything by its name -- in that country. So, if you see a tree...

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death ...

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.

In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been mad...

Without class differences England would cease to be the living theatre it is.

Snobbery - the "pox Britannica"

We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.

London is a roost for every bird.

I know this goes without saying, but Stonehenge really was the most incredible accomplishment. It to...

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as ...

These friends - and he laid his hand on some of the books - have been good friends to me, and for so...

Before there was any chance to go to England, I changed schools, and it was rugby from there on in.

Remember that you are an Englishman and consequently have won first prize in the lottery of life.

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen and am obliged to desist from the experiment in de...

[T]he hyphenation question is, and always has been and will be, different for English immigrants. On...

Now, I have always wanted to agree with Lady Bracknell that there is no earthly use for the upper an...

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into ...

The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for 5 days.

The young Cambridge group the group that stood for "freedom" and flannel trousers and flannel shirt...

The Englishman has all the qualities of a poker except its occasional warmth.

Can you imagine the reaction of a British tabloid newspaper if they found a small school in rural En...

Believe me I do understand and I am disgusted by the idea that we should aim for any less for a chil...

In fact this is precisely the logic on which the Bank of England—the first successful modern central...

Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears prejudices misconceptions - those are the pe...

...but wasn't everyone in England supposed to be a detective? Wasn't every crime, no matter how comp...

I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.

They must live outside class, without relations or money; they must work and stick to each other til...

Oh to be in England Now that April's there.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise hi...

fights you on patriotic principles he robs you on business principles he enslaves you on imperial ...

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing ...

What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in com...

The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. Unpopular id...

England will still be England, an everlasting animal stretching into the future and the past, and, l...

The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, fou...

England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted message, nor is it the inferno depicte...

England is the paradise of individuality eccentricity heresy anomalies hobbies and humours.

If it were not for collectors England would be full, so to speak, of rare birds and wonderful butter...

England is never in a hurry because she is eternal.

Ah sortay jist laugh whin some cats say that racism's an English thing and we're aw Jock Tamson's ba...

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

Rule Britannia Britannia rule the waves Britains never will be slaves.

When Britain first at Heaven's command Arose from out the azure main This was the charter of the l...

When Britain first at Heaven's command Arose from out the azure main This was the charter of the l...

Rule Britannia Britannia rule the waves Britains never will be slaves.

When Britain first at Heaven's command Arose from out the azure main This was the charter of the l...

Rule Britannia Britannia rule the waves Britains never will be slaves.

When Britain first at Heaven's command Arose from out the azure main This was the charter of the l...

Rule Britannia Britannia rule the waves Britains never will be slaves.

I am a cuddly atheist... I am against creationism being taught in schools because there is empirical...

A mixture, before the English, of irritation and bafflement, of having this same language, same past...

She felt a tightness in her chest and sent for Dr Simcox.'What's the trouble?''Look out there, that'...

There comes a moment for all of us when our childhood ceases to be an excuse. In your case, I would ...

No one is better at not beating America than England.

He was perfectly astonished with the historical account gave him of our affairs during the last cent...

This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak—the s...

Though I love my country I do not love my countrymen.

Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a wh...

One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a de...

England and America owe their liberty to commerce, which created a new species of power to undermine...

The nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Nature's gifts to her English children ... we have...

Not only England but every Englishman is an island.

JACKThat is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw...

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life...

I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people ...

The English seem to relish unsystematic learning of this kind, in the same manner that they embarked...

A letter from a French cleric to Nicholas of St. Albans, written c. 1178, rehearsed what was already...

It is the kind of stoicism which had been seen as characteristic of Anglo-Saxon poetry, perhaps nowh...

History is about longing and belonging. It is about the need for permanence and the perception of co...

Far too many people—many of them academics, many politicians—continue to jabber about a supposed 'sp...

The Lord Chief Justice of England recently said that the greater part of his judicial time was spent...

I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.

[O]ur English divines are sounder in it than any in the world, generally: I think because they are m...

O sirs, how many souls, then, have every one of us been guilty of damning! What a number of our neig...

Believe it, brethren, God looks for more from England, than from most nations in the world; and for ...

We are articulate but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake...

What should they know of England who only England know?

A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.

If I should die think only this of me that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever...

If I should die think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever ...