England Quotes
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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
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, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
— Quentin Crisp
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
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
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
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
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
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Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!
— Benjamin Franklin
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 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'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
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
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
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
English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England.
— Matt Groening
In England, people don't like me.
— Heather Mills
The Full Monty, ah, it's superb. The Full Monty showed how life really is in certain cities of England.
— Mark Roberts
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
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
