England Quotes · Page 33

A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean

— Thomas Jefferson

I would love to fight Tyson Fury. I would travel to England and knock him out.

— James Toney

I'll keep supporting. I'll be an England fan no matter what, and I'll stay true to my word.

— Joe Hart

Nowadays there are too many players who can't get a contract elsewhere, who come to England and just take the money.

— Rob Andrew

It was a dream for me to score two goals on my first start for the England Under-21s.

— Tammy Abraham

I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.

— Paul R. Ehrlich

They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.

— Marcel Proust

There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

— Francis Bacon

I believe, and this is perhaps too nationalistic a view, that the American style of acting puts actors quickly in touch with…

— Arthur Penn

I wasn't treated different to anyone else, I just performed on the pitch and that helped my selection for the 'Development England'…

— Isa Guha

I was delighted that by campaigning throughout England, Scotland and Wales, addressing in all 39 public meetings, I had contributed to the…

— Edward Heath

It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so…

— John Amery

My dad was teaching in Kenya, and my grandparents came to visit me there. They brought me to England, and my dad…

— Francesca Hayward

Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose…

— Oscar Wilde

It's a useful rule in Anglo-American communications that the English should double, and the Americans halve, the number of words they would…

— Phyllis Bentley

I don't think my parents imagined I'd represent England when they first drove me to mini-rugby at Maidenhead. I was only five…

— James Haskell

Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that…

— Ronald Knox

Within the first year of launching my company, Spanx, I decided to go over to England and cold-call Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and…

— Sara Blakely

The Church of England holds very firmly, and continues to hold to the view, that marriage is a lifelong union of one…

— Justin Welby

I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people lived hand…

— Paul Theroux

You humiliate a rich person and they're still rich. You humiliate a brilliant person and they're still smart. A person who is…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The terrible thing in England is if you interview a thousand people, five hundred of them will talk like they're going into…

— Ricky Gervais

She smelled like England, of soft rain and sun-kissed meadows. And she felt like the best kind of heaven. He wanted to…

— Julia Quinn

I don't want Scotland to be more important than England. There's just a cancer of low self-esteem in Scotland and a general…

— Limmy

Dover is part of England. It simply can't be part of anywhere else.

— Vera Lynn

I want to be part of the team that wins a Test series in England and Australia.

— Gautam Gambhir

Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy.

— Anthony Burgess

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

— Andrew Wiles

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

Fundamentally, England, Spain and Germany were the relevant leagues I could see myself playing football in.

— Mats Hummels

Above all, I want to captain England in more Test victories than anybody else.

— Nasser Hussain

Scholes is very influential for England at international level.

— Ron Atkinson

To play in the World Cup and try to win something for England was the ultimate.

— Peter Shilton

When you give up something as big as playing for England there are going to be moments when you miss it.

— Alastair Cook

Everything in England was faster and physically even harder than in Italy and Germany in my opinion.

— Antonio Rudiger

In New England, especially, [faith] is like sex. It's very personal. You don't bring it out and talk about it.

— Frederick Buechner

England has some very good cricketers. And don't rule West Indies out. They have some explosive players.

— Sourav Ganguly

Right joyous are we to behold your face, Most worthy brother England; fairly met!

— William Shakespeare

It is true that I did not shine as I had wanted in England, but that is part of the past.

— Radamel Falcao

One reason I don't want to play in England again is because we don't have any personalities.

— George Best