England Quotes · Page 47

Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs.

— Jonathan Swift

I don't like class distinction, and there is far too much of that in England.

— Miriam Margolyes

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

— Townsend Harris

I have had to work hard to get in the starting XI for England.

— Jesse Lingard

“I see England, I see France; I see a little girl’s Underpants!”

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

— Francesca Annis

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

— Kristen Gilbert

At age 10 or 12 he's going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course,…

— Jeremy Irons

I stopped drinking alcohol, which probably was the biggest change. I used to be a very big beer drinker. Being from England,…

— Wade Barrett

I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.

— Jurgen Klopp

I believe that the Union Flag should change now to reflect the four nations of the United Kingdom - England, Scotland, Northern…

— Ian Lucas

The Bank of England's Carney is worried the shock of Britain's vote to leave the E.U. could cause households and businesses to…

— Kelly Evans

I am surprised you shd. say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these wd. be…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Undoubtedly Internet has reduced the possibilities of taxation. Why should I buy something here if I can buy it from a company…

— Milton Friedman

If you want to propose marriage to your girlfriend and you live in England and she is in Sicily, do the decent…

— Werner Herzog

My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies…

— Alan Bradley

While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato…

— Henry David Thoreau

King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the…

— Joan of Arc

One of the first big bubbles, of course, was the huge and horrible South Sea Bubble in England. And the aftermath was…

— Charlie Munger

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would…

— Michael Caine

Only 38 per cent of players in the Premier League are English; that is a damning statistic. Soon, the England manager will…

— Glenn Hoddle

I live in Beverly Hills and I'm proud of it. The only things I miss are pie and mash shops and football…

— Steve Jones

“O, let us pay the time but needful woe, Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs. This England never did, nor…

— William Shakespeare

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

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

— Arthur Quiller-Couch

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

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

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

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

— Peter Oliver

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

— Anna Lee

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

— Ravindra Jadeja

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

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

— Stan Van Gundy

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

— Francis Parkman