London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
In England pensions used to be given to aristocrats, because aristocrats had political influence, in order to corrupt them. Here pensions are… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength, - the… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
An overview of all wars since the establishment of the Bank of England in 1694 suggests that most of them would have… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story… — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England. — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Then we did what we called basically I suppose a club tour in England, which was the time I think that our… — John Deacon Copy Share Image
The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
God save the Queen and a fascist regime … a flabby toothless fascism, to be sure. Never go too far in any… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Nothing did more to spur the boom in stocks than the decision made by the New York Federal Reserve bank, in the… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
I decided that we'd have to take our chances with the law and get the hell out of Baltimore. I thought of… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
The Princess Elizabeth, of England, was found dead with her head resting on her Bible, open at these words, "Come unto me,… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
Two decades ago, however, socialism and communism died rudely, then were buried forever by the empirical demonstration of the superiority of market… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
No person knows better than you do that the domination of England is the sole and blighting curse of this country. It… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
When I got there, all the pasta and science stuff hadn't quite caught on in England - things that were perfectly acceptable… — Robbie Fowler Copy Share Image
Organizing the working class in England or the U.S. or any other advanced capitalist country has been a daunting challenge. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
I must admit I suffered a bit when I first came to England. But then I realised that there was nothing to… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
All my life I've wanted to see London. [...] I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
England, a happy land we know, Where follies naturally grow, Where without culture they arise, And tow'r above the common size. — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
On the Continent there is one topic which should be avoided-the weather; in England, if you do not repeat the phrase "Lovely… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
In England you probably have too many cups with the Champions League as it is now. You have the FA Cup and… — Gianluca Vialli Copy Share Image
The higher mental activities are pretty tough and resilient, but it is a devastating experience if the drive does stop. Some people… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Playing in New England and the Boston area, the fans are so passionate about their sports if you don't play well, they'll… — Drew Bledsoe Copy Share Image
There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My accent has changed my whole life. When I was younger it was very Nigerian, then when we went to England it… — Toks Olagundoye Copy Share Image
Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan.… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
My ambitions are to be the Stoke number one and England number one, but there are other things I want to achieve… — Jack Butland Copy Share Image
Everyone knows that England are a far better team than their World Cup performance suggests. It's vital that we play with confidence… — Paul Sculthorpe Copy Share Image
It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at… — Philip Dunne Copy Share Image
The one major disappointment I have is that I didn't get a hundred against India in India. I got lots of runs… — David Gower Copy Share Image
Obviously it would be tough to be selected for England with the number of good players there is, and it is the… — Ashley Barnes Copy Share Image
Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image