England Quotes · Page 63

North of England, you're brought up on fish and chips. Friday or Saturdays every week, it was a treat.

— Andrew Flintoff

I have never thought of a scenario where international football was not a massive part of our [England] game.

— Michael Owen

We have in England a particular bashfulness in every thing that regards religion.

— Joseph Addison

Walter Smith would be a fantastic manager for any club in England and I mean any club.

— Darren Fletcher

I like hot weather. I think it might be a bit better if England was a bit hotter.

— Freddie Highmore

Nowhere in the world do supporters love their clubs more than in England. England is paradise to play in.

— Arjen Robben

Don't worry, Alan. At least you'll be able to play close to a great team. (to Alan Ball, who'd just signed for…

— Bill Shankly

In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and…

— Nick Bantock

King would get the ball off you without you even noticing he's the only defender in England who doesn't hold onto you,…

— Thierry Henry

London's been really good to me - England as a whole - but the Scots and the Irish especially are very appreciative…

— Sturgill Simpson

Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for…

— John Pople

They respect rappers in the U.S., but in England, it's the Queen's country. She'll forever be putting out the message on these…

— Skepta

I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want…

— Sting

I'm a woman specialist now. I'm going around the world to challenge all the woman champions. England, France, Czechoslovakia, everywhere.

— Bobby Riggs

Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its…

— Ada Leverson

“Alyssa tried to lift her chin. She was going to do the one thing she loved again- something that reminded her of…

— Nicole Castro

“O sirs, how many souls, then, have every one of us been guilty of damning! What a number of our neighbours and…

— Richard Baxter

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon…

— Bob Marley

You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action. In France you get freedom of…

— Anonymous

After Titanic it would have been completely foolish for me to go and try and top that. I'm an English girl, I've…

— Kate Winslet

It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment…

— Marcia Angell

Let me tell you the following words as if I were showing you the rungs of a ladder leading upward and upward:…

— Max Nordau

Paul Scholes has been the best England midfield player for 30-odd years. You'd probably have to go back to Bobby Charlton to…

— Gordon Strachan

In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there's no training, no discipline.

— Peter O'Toole

I am not qualified to be a Dame. To be Dame you have to represent England in a way that I don't.

— Charlotte Rampling

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

— Julia Child

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I've played 100 caps for England, for my country. Being the first black player, I think, is amazing.

— Ashley Cole

I don't think I would have any problem at all playing in England. I'd love it.

— Ronaldo

It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'.

— Walter Bagehot

I grew up really fast when I moved to England when I was 12 years old.

— Derek Hough

England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!

— Miranda Otto

I heard London is nice, so maybe it is. But I've only been to the armpit of England.

— Matt Riddle

Thinking about the cold weather in England... Don't be afraid to rock the David Niven look.

— Mike D

If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.

— Elton John

I want to play for City in big games and I want to play for England.

— Phil Foden

My goals in Holland were known as 'stiffies', which means something quite different in England of course.

— Dennis Bergkamp

I love England. I don't want to move away from the place I grew up in.

— Phoebe Fox

I'm not from these parts. I'm from a little place called England, we used to run the world before you lot.

— Ricky Gervais