England Quotes · Page 63

The last positive thing England did for cricket was to invent it.

— Ian Chappell

Every time Spain play England at any level, it is difficult.

— Thiago Alcantara

The ball goes down the keeper's throat where it hits him on the knees to say the least.

— Ron Atkinson

I have been at Leicester since I was 12 and to play for England at the King Power is obviously going to…

— Ben Chilwell

The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.

— Anonymous

I am thrilled to be joining a club as prestigious and successful as Liverpool.

— Peter Crouch

There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.

— Madame de Stael

I am a proud Englishman and proud every time I pull on the England shirt.

— Dominic Calvert-Lewin

I learned everything in France, I grew up in France, but England is not the same football. It's very difficult, it's very…

— Robert Pires

“Oh, to be in England, now that England’s gone. This World Service, this little bakelite gateway into the world of Sidney Box,…

— Stephen Fry

All Scouts should know about St. George. St. George is the Patron Saint of England; he is also the Patron Saint of…

— Robert Baden-Powell

I know that Martin Johnson [the England coach] was in the stands, but I didn't feel it was up to me to…

— Jonny Wilkinson

I bought Jayne Mansfield's mansion in L.A. after her death. I had met her in England and remembered her perfume. When I…

— Engelbert Humperdinck

“Finding a master of the dark art of ninjutsu in modern westernized Japan seems as unlikely as finding an active practitioner of…

— Stephen K. Hayes

When I lived in New Zealand I took my then girlfriend to Tahiti - which is a lot easier to get to…

— Phillip Schofield

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

— Charles Stewart Parnell

“The rout, that dreary review of fashionable fineries, that parade of well-dressed self-infatuations, is one of those English inventions currently mechanifying the…

— Honoré de Balzac

I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era…

— M. K. Hobson

The civil jury is the most effective form of sovereignty of the people. It defies the aggressions of time and man. During…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

In England, those qualities of playing it simple, being in the right position, reading the game, knowing the right moment to make…

— Xabi Alonso

Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i.e., those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic…

— V. S. Pritchett

My coming to England in this way is, as I realize, so unusual that nobody will easily understand it. I was confronted…

— Rudolf Hess

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of…

— A. N. Wilson

Today I have lost one of my dearest friends, England one of her greatest men. Keith Joseph understood that it was necessary…

— Margaret Thatcher

I shouldn't have retired from England. I needed to respect the shirt.

— Ashley Cole

Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.

— Horace Walpole

Every manager dreams of a job like this [the England job] and I will be sure to learn English within one month.

— Fabio Capello

When I came to England, everyone told me that I'd get the hits, so I was prepared for that.

— Thibaut Courtois

Everyone has a different view on football, but I didn't have a fear that I wouldn't be good enough in England.

— Luka Modric

Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.

— Thomas Malory

Fighting in England, for me, is the height of my career. It really is.

— Michael Bisping

My time in New England was great. I thank them for everything.

— Jimmy Garoppolo

Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve.

— Emeril Lagasse

England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.

— Albert Bushnell Hart

I always wanted to play in England but I didn't know I would get the move so soon.

— Kai Havertz

Perhaps my style of play is not something that is seen in England.

— Jorginho

Test Cricket is not a light-hearted business, especially that between England and Australia.

— Donald Bradman

There was very little international support, even England wouldn't support [bombing of Syria], which is amazing.

— Noam Chomsky

When I tell people in England my show is going on at midnight, they look at you like you're crazy.

— Noel Edmonds

I've got a good connection here in England, my kids were born here, they're Northern Irish but born in England.

— Stuart Dallas