England Quotes · Page 45

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

— Donald Bradman

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

I would never play in England in another shirt other than Arsenal's.

— Patrick Vieira

I didn't see myself playing regularly at right-back for Manchester United or making my England debut in that position.

— Chris Smalling

I am in England and the food here is not to be tasted as much as just swallowed without grimacing.

— Kristen Gilbert

The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They…

— Auberon Waugh

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I find research fascinating and always conduct some before I begin writing, and then fill in the rest as needed. I read…

— Julie Klassen

When I was younger, I could never have imagined that me at 24 would have already won a league in Portugal, a…

— Bernardo Silva

I was called up by England twice. Once for World Cup qualifiers against Andorra and Croatia and later for a friendly against…

— Jimmy Bullard

The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity…

— T. E. Lawrence

Witches were part of my imaginary childhood playground, so I wanted to make an archetypal fairytale about the mythic idea of what…

— Robert Eggers

I've reached a point in England where you can't go much further; I would love to come to America and work with…

— Lesley Manville

In eighteenth-century England, there was a practice of hiring a picturesque hermit who would inhabit the beautiful ruin on your estate. To…

— David Grubbs

I never learned music. I'm quite uneducated, and usually I sat in front of the TV, with soap operas on, in England.…

— Graham Parker

It's the UK: We have to get beyond that imperialist state. I think that kind of imperialist, hierarchical, elitist state has made…

— Irvine Welsh

I'm a third-culture child. It's an interesting concept. Having an American father, a South American mother, born in England, grew up in…

— Marie-Chantal Claire

America is a younger country than England, obviously, and as self-awareness is forming in America - are we a collection of immigrants,…

— Martin Amis

It's a unique situation as well because England is a small country, so it makes it easy for the fans to travel.…

— Claudio Reyna

Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being…

— Oscar Wilde

As a nation, we English tend to be self-deprecating, looking down on ourselves. We're insular but also flexible, whereas in Germany, it's…

— Simon Rattle

From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

— Francesca Annis

Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the…

— Mick Jagger

I don't go for very handsome men. Like they say in England, toy boys break too easily.

— Eartha Kitt

I love England and so does my wife. The centre of London is unbelievable. We are really happy here.

— Pablo Mari

From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life.

— Alice Morse Earle

The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the…

— Oscar Wilde

O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm Of green days telling with a quiet beat.

— Arthur Quiller-Couch

I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am.

— Anna Lee

You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.

— Peter Oliver

Continental people have a sex life; the English have hot-water bottles.

— George Mikes

the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.

— Martha Gellhorn

I was born in Argentina, and have lived in England, Ireland, Africa and Malta.

— Chris de Burgh

Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.

— Sydney Smith

England have good fast bowlers who can exploit their home conditions.

— Ravindra Jadeja

It would be very good news for the Premier League if Zidane moved to England.

— Robert Pires

Arsenal are the most beautiful club in England. At Man City and Chelsea, they will never have that class and style.

— Marco van Basten