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My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this. — Kim Cattrall

If you lay a finger on our pirates again, I'm going to kick your ass! — Hidekaz Himaruya

The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet. — Henry David Thoreau

Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it. — Horace Walpole

I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in. — Uta Hagen

In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor. — Michael Caine

My official field was Tudor-Stuart England; I also considered myself reasonably competent when it came to Renaissance and Reformation Europe. — Lauren Willig

A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible. — Ada Leverson

When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it. I didn't inhale. — Bill Clinton

I don't see no black and white couples in England or America walking around proud holding their children and going out. — Muhammad Ali

In England, you laugh at yourselves; in France, we laugh at others. — Lou Doillon

In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal! — Quentin Crisp

Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me. — Zhang Xin

If there is any man in England who is more experienced than Lord St. Vincent at sneaking around for a tryst, I'd like to know who. — Lisa Kleypas

They scored too early. — Ron Atkinson

I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too. — Elizabeth I

Scholes is very influential for England at international level. — Ron Atkinson

England produces the best fat actors. — Jimmy Cannon

I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it! — William Faulkner

England is a profoundly bizarre place that has produced thousands of bands the world has worshipped. — Gene Simmons

I still believe I have a part to play for England. — David Beckham

Equally, though, there are guys who play England Under 19 who don't even play First Class cricket. It is a watershed in the careers in many ways. — Andy Pick

I'm a hard-mouthed northeastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England. — Jamie Bell

Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England — Lauren Willig

I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy. — Otis Redding

I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000. — Paul R. Ehrlich

What fools American can be for England — Charles Finch

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England. — Virginia Woolf

I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason. — Claire Forlani

Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife. — Margaret Halsey

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam. — George Bernard Shaw

England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example. — Robert Benchley

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions. — Ellen Swallow Richards

More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England. — Albert Bushnell Hart

In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English. — Bertrand Barere

Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers ... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers. — Tom Stoppard

Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South. — Mick Jagger

Continuity is one of the things I like about New England. — Tracy Kidder

No one is better at not beating America than England. — Jon Stewart

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. — Juliette Binoche

Catch a boat to England baby, maybe to Spain. Wherever I have gone, wherever I've been and gone, wherever I have gone ... The blues are all the same. — Jackson C. Frank

Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness. — Pierre Dukan

Well I've never been to England But I kind of like the Beatles. — Hoyt Axton

We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalize over Italy and ecstacise over Spain- but England we love. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

The British are so incestuous. They pass around partners like they're passing popcorn at a movie. — Cameron Diaz

Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box. — Henry James

Every bullet has its billet. — William III Of England

I cannot speak your england. — William Shakespeare

I do appreciate that the most important thing as manager is to get good results. — Stuart Pearce

Referees don't come down here with a particular flavoured shirt on. — Steve Coppell

The grave is Heaven's golden gate,
And rich and poor around it wait;
O Shepherdess of England's fold,
Behold this gate of pearl and gold! — William Blake

My great uncle was in 'Dad's Army.' And I don't know if Americans will know that. It was a hugely popular show in England. — Daisy Ridley

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

Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable. — Norman Rockwell

But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England. — Minnie Driver

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

In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was. — Daniel J. Boorstin

Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade! — Benjamin Franklin

My folks were English ... we were too poor to be British. — Bob Hope

I live in Santa Barbara. My wife's American, and she lived in England for 11 years and then told me she'd had enough. — Martin Gore

I'll say she's brave," Grandma chimes in. "She's going to England day after tomorrow to hump some guy she barely knows. — Meg Cabot

I just wanted to jump into the stands and start celebrating with those wonderful fans.
(on reaching the Champions League final) — Steven Gerrard

It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so. — Henry David Thoreau

I've had two or three injuries when with England and it's been a bit bizarre. — Jamie Redknapp

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature. — Karin Slaughter

He shed a lake of blood and murdered a king for a cold, lonely throne. — Jayne Castel

England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife. — Cedric Hardwicke

I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian. — Kunal Nayyar

The Who, England's most self-conscious band, have released 'Quadrophenia,' which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility. — Jon Landau

There are no secrets about England - they are searching for positives. — Shane Warne

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

And I know what confidence medals can bring. — Gary Neville

Maine Road was a great football stadium but as time moved on it stayed where it is ... — Kevin Keegan

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?' — John Mayer

England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it. — Edmund Burke

I would love to spend more time in Britain one day. In my heart, I still feel that I'm English, and when I think of home, I think of England. — Olivia Hussey

When you have lost your inns, you may drown your empty selves. For you have lost the heart of England. — Hilaire Belloc

It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round. — Alfred Douglas

The best side drew
(after a hard fought 1-1 draw) — Bill Shankly

I'm not the type of person to go into depression after defeat. — Kevin Keegan

English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England. — Matt Groening

Be of good comfort, Mr. Ridley, and play the man! We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace, in England, as I trust never shall be put out. — Hugh Latimer

In England, people don't like me. — Heather Mills

Guns aren't toys! They're for family protection, hunting dangerous or delicious animals, and keeping the King of England out of your face! — Homer

The Full Monty, ah, it's superb. The Full Monty showed how life really is in certain cities of England. — Mark Roberts

The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot. — Jay Leno

I doubt if 5% of professing Christians in America are born again-and that's true of England! — Leonard Ravenhill

Feathers fell from the sky. Like black snow, they drifted onto an old city called Bath. — Stefan Bachmann

In England, I'm already labeled a rock photographer, which is a little insulting, because I'm not a rock photographer at all. — Anton Corbijn

I'm gonna start off somewhere small like London or England. — Britney Spears

My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning. — Mary Quant

And in heaven's name, who are the public enemies?" exclaimed Dr. Leete. "Are they France, England Germany or hunger, cold and nakedness? — Edward Bellamy

The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them. — H.P. Lovecraft

We haven't had a strategic free kick all night. No one's knocked over attackers ad-lib. — Ron Atkinson

The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short. — Henry Rollins

Paul Scholes should be included in England's Euro 2012 squad. — Harry Redknapp

When you put better teams in front of you, that's when the big players rise to that occasion. — Michael Owen

By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England. — Jonathan Swift

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. — Stephen Gardiner