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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
England has enjoyed fifty years of peace. This is the Tudors' covenant; peace is what they offer.
— Hilary Mantel
This is a war against terrorists. Not a war against a religion, but a war against terrorists.
— Gordon England
Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.
— Thomas Malory
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
Does this feel like pity to you, Alex? I assure you a great many emotions for you fill me, but pity is not one of them.
— Dominique Eastwick
This is the best Man United have played in Europe this season and, conversely, the opposition has been excellent.
— Ron Atkinson
What pretty bright trout there are in this bold rock creek! It would full be called a river in England, and so it is!
— Thaddeus Norris
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
England produces the best fat actors.
— Jimmy Cannon
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. — Rupert Brooke
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. — Rupert Brooke
England is a profoundly bizarre place that has produced thousands of bands the world has worshipped.
— Gene Simmons
This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.
— Charles II Of England
Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England
— Lauren Willig
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
In England, people don't like me.
— Heather Mills
It is Method on 'This is England;' it is. But it can't be Method on every job because it just doesn't work for everything.
— Vicky McClure
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
And rich and poor around it wait;
O Shepherdess of England's fold,
Behold this gate of pearl and gold! — William Blake
What fools American can be for England
— Charles Finch
The best side drew
(after a hard fought 1-1 draw) — Bill Shankly
(after a hard fought 1-1 draw) — Bill Shankly
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
"So's the weather. But this is England, we must learn to live with uncertainty. — Gail Carriger
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
Crossing the Fens by boat there comes the realisation that water not earth or sky is the natural element in this landscape.
— Stephanie Green
Everything that ever gets done in this world is done by madmen,
— Aldous Huxley
Scotland is a great country and many wonderful things have come out of this country, however England gets the glory.
— Joseph Hume
MILTON! thou shouldst be living at this hour:
England hath need of thee: she is a fen — William Wordsworth
England hath need of thee: she is a fen — William Wordsworth
While aromatherapy is practiced by medical doctors in France, this has not been the case in England and the United States.
— Robert Tisserand
For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
There are many things in life more worthwhile than money. One is to be brought up in this our England which is still the envy of less happy lands.
— Alfred Denning, Baron Denning
For this is England where a man's neighbours will never suffer him to live entirely bereft of society, let him be as dry and sour-faced as he may.
— Susanna Clarke
Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence.
— Philippa Gregory
I always try and keep a jacket from everything I do. I've still got my original coat from 'Snatch' and my jacket from 'This Is England'.
— Stephen Graham
To be a working actor in England is a life. I think it's harder in this country. Either you are a superstar or a starving actor.
— Rebecca Eaton
My Luftwaffe is invincible ... And so now we turn to England. How long will this one last - two, three weeks?
— Hermann Goring
The greatest shoemaker in England for many, many decades; he used to be the royal shoe-maker for the Queen Mother. This is where I learnt my trade.
— Manolo Blahnik
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
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
(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
In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
We haven't had a strategic free kick all night. No one's knocked over attackers ad-lib.
— Ron Atkinson
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
It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.
— Alfred Douglas
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
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 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
England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.
— Cedric Hardwicke
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