England Quotes · Page 31

I think that France, Germany, Spain, Holland and England will join Brazil in the semi-finals.

— Pele

Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.

— Anthony Trollope

“In England, art was much less likely to be mentioned in polite society than sexual perversions or methods of torture.”

— Edward St. Aubyn

I'm English, I've always wanted to play for England but it's out of my hands.

— Mark Noble

I never drove in England. I rode bicycles. So driving is terrifying.

— Ed Weeks

We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.

— Philippa Gregory

At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States

— Hideki Tojo

They always lose when it matters (getting it wrong about England in the rugby world cup final 2003).

— Bernard Laporte

My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish.

— Brian McDermott

A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet.

— Carol Zaleski

Ronaldo has nothing to prove to anyone, he has proved his talent by being the top scorer in England. He has proved…

— Eusebio

“The English seem to relish unsystematic learning of this kind, in the same manner that they embarked upon "Grand Tours" of Europe…

— Peter Ackroyd

I've always tried to write California history as American history. The paradox is that New England history is by definition national history,…

— Kevin Starr

Nelson's famous signal before the Battle of Trafalgar was not: "England expects that every man will be a hero." It said: "Englandexpects…

— Johan Huizinga

I would rather die in America than live in England. I would rather lose a match in America than win one in…

— Wilhelm Steinitz

In Germany, you can play aggressively, but the referee will always blow his whistle, but in England, that's not the case. That's…

— Granit Xhaka

And our experience in England was that. It was a delight. I had never even been to England and I got to…

— Jerusha Hess

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks…

— Anthony Burgess

I think British humour is very cruel, and gay humour is very cruel. I think the two go hand-in-hand and that's why…

— Jason Sellards

A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and…

— Upton Sinclair

London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws…

— Paul Verlaine

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

“And when I'm feeling glum, because Gregory's away of because my daughter's just hurled her full glass of milk at my head,…

— Paul Rudnick

Whether in peaceful trade or warlike attack, the sea unites more than it divides. Even if it were possible to treat England,…

— Nicholas Rodger

“The fastest way to destroy a culture is to make it multicultural.”

— Robert Black

England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.

— Salman Rushdie

Perhaps if England and Scotland together had one team we could at least beat the Germans.

— John Prescott

Look, I was proud to be England's No 1 and it is definitely something I am aiming at again.

— Paul Casey

It was fantastic for me to see the cheering and clapping and it showed maybe not all of them want me out…

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

I assume there's a lot of intelligent football fans in England.

— Pat McAfee

It's surreal to think that no one has played as many Test matches for England. I suppose it's a credit to my…

— Alastair Cook

I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.

— Benjamin Disraeli

England and the U.S. definitely have their differences and similarities.

— DeAndre Yedlin

I have had a lot of success in England, but I want to have even more.

— Toni Duggan

“[Poetry] is a field where England can take on all challengers.”

— Patrick Leigh Fermor

Manchester United have, since 1991, conquered Europe about as successfully as Head and Shoulders has conquered dandruff

— Martin Samuel

I grew up in New England, and the woods behind my house seemed haunted by New England's past.

— Robert Eggers

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

— Victor Hugo

The spirit he has shown has been second to none. (on Terry Fenwick's drunk-driving charge)

— Terry Venables

I have a group of people, about 40, in a local church in Surrey in England, who pray for me regularly.

— Cliff Richard