England Quotes · Page 44

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

— Horace Walpole

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

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

— Thiago Alcantara

It's very hard as an Asian actress to get seen for anything which isn't specifically Asian in England.

— Jessica Henwick

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

— Ian Chappell

Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

— Francesca Annis

Consider England. Within a few score years how many unsettling changes in religion has the whole kingdom made, according to the change…

— Roger Williams

As an England fan, you want to be involved in the big tournaments, especially when they are playing in your home stadium.

— Callum Wilson

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England…

— George Bernard Shaw

They value different things in every country. In England, it's very physical. You tackle, you shoot. I love watching it. In Spain,…

— Xabi Alonso

We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it…

— Jonathan Sacks

Thou art Justice ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England thou Shield'st alike the high…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because…

— Gabriel Byrne

When I came into the England team I was always being asked whether I 'really' wanted to be a wicketkeeper. It was…

— Jonny Bairstow

She smelled like England, of soft rain and sun-kissed meadows. And she felt like the best kind of heaven. He wanted to…

— Julia Quinn

You humiliate a rich person and they're still rich. You humiliate a brilliant person and they're still smart. A person who is…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The terrible thing in England is if you interview a thousand people, five hundred of them will talk like they're going into…

— Ricky Gervais

In 1979, I moved to England and photographed Joy Division and Bowie and Beefheart. At that time I got images that I…

— Anton Corbijn

I don't want Scotland to be more important than England. There's just a cancer of low self-esteem in Scotland and a general…

— Limmy

Marijuana is rejected all over the world. Damned. In England heroin is alright for out-patents, but marijuana? They'll put your ass in…

— Lenny Bruce

I don't really know what Americans are like. I've no idea. I know a few things about them. In my imagination, they…

— Sebastian Horsley

I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England…

— Richard Cobden

Just because you're made England captain, it doesn't mean that you suddenly know everything about captaincy.

— Alastair Cook

When you put better teams in front of you, that's when the big players rise to that occasion.

— Michael Owen

Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte.

— Francis Parkman

For me to wear an England badge would have always been enough.

— Leah Williamson

Our country was founded on protest. Otherwise, we would still be a colony of England.

— Stan Van Gundy

When I was seven I wanted to be a footballer, but when I was 14, I wanted to be a model. Look…

— David Beckham

I came to England because I thought it would help me to get back in the Brazilian national team.

— Fernandinho

As a youth player, I played for England and got used to it, and I have just to carry it on to…

— Ruben Loftus-Cheek

One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street.

— David Hare

For me to live in England and be part of English football is the maximum of this life.

— Gianluca Vialli

As a child growing up, watching England, it was one of those things you always wanted to be involved in.

— Michail Antonio

Had I stayed in England, I would have had to take at least a few acting jobs just for the money.

— Tom Payne

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

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

— Jorginho