England Quotes · Page 29

Boy George is all England needs - another queen who can't dress.

— Joan Rivers

I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.

— Sting

You bring your strength to the game - that's what I've learnt, and that's what I try to bring to England.

— James Haskell

England is very regimented. Go to work, come home from work, go to the pub.

— Tricky

Have transfer prices in England surprised me? No. Are the prices over-inflated? Yes. But there is no surprise now.

— Sam Allardyce

There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.

— William Shakespeare

The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)

— Bill Shankly

People tell me that I am well-grounded. I am sane in the New England sense of the word.

— Ali MacGraw

The Conservatives played like England cricketers - too many rash strokes and run-outs, dropped catches and bowling anywhere but the stumps.

— Norman Tebbit

I've had a lot of success in England, and I've really enjoyed my time with Manchester City, but I wanted to challenge…

— Toni Duggan

If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or ministers of religion, I repent me of my…

— William Wallace

A 17-year-old girl in Australia hacked into my e-mail while I was on it, Then a 15-year-old girl in England did the…

— Robert Pattinson

“If nature abhors a vacuum, historiography loves a void because it can be filled with any number of plausible accounts; Howe, Nicholas,…

— Deanne Williams

England is surrounded by enemies - by real enemies who hate her. Why? Because she tries to be honest; and she tries…

— George Augustus Henry Sala

I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places…

— Peter James

Does the manager have absolute power in England? No, it depends on a budget and on the executive director that negotiates the…

— Rafael Benitez

And still I look for the men who will dare to be roses of England wild roses of England men who are…

— D. H. Lawrence

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer,…

— John Masefield

My aunt made stuff; my mom was creative, so I was surrounded by that. When I moved to England, it was '75,…

— Maria Cornejo

England has not wholly escaped the curse which must ever befall a free government which holds extensive provinces in subjection; for, although…

— John C. Calhoun

Shall we have recourse to the art of printing? But this has not destroyed property or aristocracy or corporations or paper wealth…

— John Adams

Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day that young Hamlet was born, he that is…

— William Shakespeare

Although I haven't experienced violence in a relationship, I know that two women every week in England and Wales are killed by…

— Jemma Kidd

One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes,…

— Norman Mailer

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

— Muhammad Ali

We have got to build more affordable homes in the south of England, we've just got to.

— James Cleverly

I've really enjoyed myself and the time I've had on the pitch, the opportunity to play for England.

— Ruben Loftus-Cheek

MARRIAGE, A ceremony favoured in England -- it's the only way to beat their cold winters and lack of central heating;

— Nikhil Saluja

Everyone in America thinks I'm American - and everyone in England seems to think I'm American.

— David Harewood

Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.

— Philip Larkin

American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England.

— John Amery

I think playing international football burns players out, but I was in and out of the England squad so never felt that.

— Gareth Barry

Individually, I think things have been very, very good for me in my first season in England.

— Robinho

Growing up in England, I was constantly surrounded by the Arthurian legend.

— Jamie Campbell Bower

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

— George Best

When I came to England, everybody was indoors all the time, and nobody said hello to each other. That was weird.

— Letitia Wright

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.

— Jez Butterworth

We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.

— Bill Shankly

Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.

— Chris Barber

The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.

— Neil Gaiman