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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

In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me. — Ben Kingsley

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) — Kevin Keegan

Almost anyone can lie on their back, close their eyes and think of France."
"It's England."
"Why would anyone think of England during sex? — Tiffany Reisz

He's fantastic on the ground but obviously he is very tall.
(on Peter Crouch) — Michael Owen

The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger's troubled night depart, And the star of peace return. — Thomas Campbell

The women's movement in England was totally against Margaret Thatcher. — Gloria Steinem

Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English history and rural life. — Meg Rosoff

The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit. — Rand Paul

I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now. — Kristin Scott Thomas

If you pray for things, I am proof that they can happen. I want to repay the manager's faith in bringing me back.
(on re-signing for Liverpool) — Robbie Fowler

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition. — Loretta Lynn

Of England's patrician class, the author writes: It was easy to be agreeable when everything was done to keep them in comfort and ease. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Do you feel it's right for the England Captain to avoid his media duties? — Garth Crooks

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

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

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

Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don't mind ending it on a sourer note. — Stephen Merchant

He spits out an epithet so nasty I think it's only legal in England. And then only when your favourite football club loses. — Tera Lynn Childs

Scholes was England's best football player. It was impossible to take the ball from him, and he never mishit a pass. — Sven-Goran Eriksson

Darwin, writing in Victorian England, shared Glaucon's view (from aristocratic Athens) that people are obsessed with their reputations. — Jonathan Haidt

They walked over to it and Brad bent down gingerly: "It's a leg all right," he said. — Shirley Jackson

I am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England. — Theresa May

It's to remind our lads who they're playing for, and to remind the opposition who they're playing against.
(on the 'This Anfield' plaque) — Bill Shankly

England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country. — Edward Abbey

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

It was January. Snow was falling; snow had fallen all day. The sky spread like a grey goose's wing from which feathers where falling all over England. — Virginia Woolf

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 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

London darkens the map like England's bowel polyp. There is a whole country up here. — David Mitchell

Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France. — Henry David Thoreau

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

It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time. — Philip Dunne

Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England - that's how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean? — Wyclef Jean

There's no way the future's over for Martin Keown, Tony Adams or David Seaman. — Alan Shearer

I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England. — Jilly Cooper

England's civil war had ended in a consensus as the English discovered that they hated foreigners more than they hated their own countrymen. — Len Deighton

Drop by Bell's for an Irish Kiss anytime. The best in England — JoAnne Kenrick

A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet. — Carol Zaleski

The days draw out, the weather gets warmer, and it's what we call summer, with a bitter laugh when we've said it. — Stan Barstow

Yet despite these advantages, England's empire remained unlaunched until the seventeenth century. The problem is a dog-in-the-night — Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

There is a room in England somewhere, but it's nowhere to be seen. It exists only in the mind, and only in the mind of those that have been there. — Jeff Noon

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

Being Ali's doctor is somewhat like being gynacologist to the Queen of England. One does not have to do much to receive good press. — Muhammad Ali

Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired. — Laurie R. King

An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937. — Philip Warren Anderson

England's always expecting. No wonder they call her the Mother Country — Fred Trueman

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

Yes it is, actually. Knowing everyone's little secrets is a means of gaining leverage over them and I never pass up an opportunity for that. — Dara England

She would see that in England, for reasons unknown, a woman can simultaneously be cute as a bug's ear, a serious rose gardener, and a nymphomaniac. — Nell Zink

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom ... — Alexander McCall Smith

Wonder-Working Providences of Sion's Saviour in New England, — Peter Marshall

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

That's a very murky position," objected Felix.
"So's the weather. But this is England, we must learn to live with uncertainty. — Gail Carriger

For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular. — Ann Widdecombe

I think I've lost a lot of my gay fans to Gavin Henson. It's a shame because I really love them. — David Beckham

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

England did nothing in that World Cup, so why were they bringing books out? 'We got beat in the quarter-finals. I played like s**t. Here's my book.' — Joey Barton

I get a lot more abuse in England. That's just a general English attitude. I did the same thing to famous people. It's just your instinct. — Robert Pattinson

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

I remember Queen Victoria's advice to her daughter. Close your eyes and think of England. — Margaret Atwood

There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma. — Ken Kesey

I have always thought it bad manners to let one's fingers stay too long in another man's snuffbox. — Anna Freeman

That was Pele's strength - holding people off with his arm. — Ron Atkinson

There is a game in England, or there was when I was growing up, called What's the Time, Mister Wolf? It's — Neil Gaiman

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

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

He's the equivalent of the Spanish David Beckham. — Ron Atkinson

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

It's great to see young players like Kieran coming out and not being intimidated by it.
(on Kieran Richardson) — Rio Ferdinand

My England captaincy was not the England captaincy I wanted, that's what will live with me for a long time. — Kevin Pietersen

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

I would never play in England in another shirt other than Arsenal's. — Patrick Vieira

I've always felt England was a great place for a comic to work. It's an island and the audience can't run very far. — Bob Hope

England's a nice place if you're rich, but otherwise it's a fucking swamp of prejudice, class confusion, the whole thing. — Hanif Kureishi

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

Harmy is a class bowler and I think he's one of the main reasons why England have improved over the last 18 months. — Glenn McGrath

shoddily constructed sexual fantasies" The Guardian... a newspaper in England. — Rocky Flintstone

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

When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise. — Eric Cantona

I realized that kids everywhere go for the same stuff; and seeing as we'd done it in England, there's no reason why we couldn't do it in America too. — John Lennon

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

Stoichkov's playing on the wing, in this situation he likes to come in and scalp the centre-half. — Ron Atkinson

Broderick's unit shipped out to England as replacements for the 82nd Airborne men lost in the Normandy — Tom Brokaw

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

Whichever country you are, if you lose games you are criticised. It's only when it's England it's like a new world war. — Sven-Goran Eriksson

Now the time is come,
That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest,
And let her head fall into England's lap. — William Shakespeare

Let's be clear, I'm one of the thicker bishops in the Church of England. — Justin Welby

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

The highest percentage of England's top jobs are filled by graduates from about two different universities. — Keira Knightley

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

In England, I met a couple who run a children's home. They were very kind and showed me many nice spots in England. — Laura Dekker

The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties. — Charles I Of England

When I make films, I work with Mike Leigh, who's the most prolific director in England. — Lesley Manville

Far from New England's blustering shore,New England's worm her hulk shall bore,And sink her in the Indian seas,Twine, wine, and hides, and China teas. — Henry David Thoreau

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

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people. — W. H. Auden

I like the 'Cirque du Freak' books - 'Tunnel of Blood' by Darren Shan. They're set in England. It's about vampires. — Jamie Waylett

Believe me, England's prisons are full of splendid people. — Paul Theroux

Well as for Ian Rush, he's perfectly fit, apart, that is, from his physical fitness — Mike England