England Quotes · Page 49

The place was so British, I wouldn't have been surprised if the mice wore monocles.

— Bob Hope

I have a wife and young baby, and having them with me in England will help me settle.

— Jesus Navas

I've always thought I could play for England if I am on my game - if I am fit.

— Andy Carroll

I never dreamed of playing in Germany, I always thought it would be for Birmingham or in England and that would be…

— Jude Bellingham

Here in England, my becoming an actor was considered unimaginative.

— Jared Harris

A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The game In England could be suitable for me but I like Italy.

— Kalidou Koulibaly

I've got an England shirt hung up in my house from when I was an unused sub against Denmark. I cherish that.

— Kyle Walker

I've been to Wembley a couple of times to see England, but the match which stands out for me is the 2008…

— Harry Kane

A lot of Americans say the food in England sucks. I don't think the food in England sucks - the food is…

— Michael Bisping

I am just not thinking of India's deliverance. It will come, but will it be worth if England and France fall, or…

— Mahatma Gandhi

England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and…

— Caryl Churchill

If I went to Spain and lived there for five years, I'm not going to play for Spain. For me an English…

— Jack Wilshere

It is probable that England will look favorably upon the independence of the Philippines, for it will open their ports to her…

— Jose Rizal

I was working in the States when Brexit was going on back home in England. I often think that maybe I got…

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

— Anonymous

In Italy, you lose a game, you can't walk out of the stadium without having a police escort. You lose a game…

— Gianluca Vialli

I was at a school in England, a prep school, from the ages of 8 and 13. And every play they did…

— Charlie Cox

In my early teens, I read every bound volume of the magazine Punch. Every writer of any distinction in the English language,…

— Terry Pratchett

I want to play in the Premier League, the Champions League, and I want to continue playing for England. If I'm going…

— Jack Wilshere

I want the marginality to come into the center. This is the thing I was conscious of growing up, when I later…

— Michael Ondaatje

The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a…

— Horace Walpole

The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away…

— Benjamin Franklin

There were moments when I wondered at the gossamer veil that stops licence from being libel. I suspect that taking on the…

— A. A. Gill

If you've lived in England for five years, for me, it doesn't make you English.

— Jack Wilshere

I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving, England is mine and it owes me a living.

— Steven Morrissey

Ultimately we're playing cricket and we want guys who will score runs and take catches to help England win.

— Stuart Broad

When a Brazilian player comes to England and is successful, he ends up opening doors to other players.

— Robinho

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

— John Mayer

“I'd hit that so hard whoever pulled me out would become the King of England.”

— Michelle Hodkin

It doesn't matter whether you're a senior or not, if something needs saying to a colleague it will be said.

— Rio Ferdinand

The nice thing about England is that they actually speak English.

— Isaac Hanson

Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware.

— Robert Browning

I'm afraid I haven't become a born-again Christian. I'm sort of 'Church of England, lapsed' is about as far as I go.

— David Gilmour

I love England. I don't really like places when they're too hot. It's my Celtic blood.

— Gary Kemp

The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English.

— Julius Caesar Scaliger

I did a stand-up performance on Conan O'Brian, which was great, but it's not for me. I prefer England.

— Russell Howard

But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.

— Minnie Driver

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

— Ron Atkinson

There is a law against discrimination in England. But there is a different law for the royal family.

— Princess Michael of Kent