England Quotes · Page 48

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

— Leah Williamson

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

— Michael Owen

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

— Alastair Cook

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

— Gianluca Vialli

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

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

— Fernandinho

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

— David Beckham

Obviously, Spain is my home, and I have everything here - family, friends - but I'm very happy in England, with the…

— Juan Mata

It was a dream for Kante to make it to the Premier League, coming from where he came from, and the Mini…

— Antonio Rudiger

It's very difficult to break in Europe unless you break in England, and it's very difficult to break in England if you're…

— Dolores O'Riordan

When I came to Chelsea from West Ham there were certain parts of my game I felt I needed to improve and…

— Frank Lampard

In England, there is this tradition of the upper classes going to very expensive drama schools and then going on having careers.…

— Kaya Scodelario

“Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers…

— John Updike

'Downton Abbey' is my worst nightmare. I just hate that whole 'Upstairs Downstairs' thing, I think it's really lazy and it doesn't…

— Tom Payne

The thing is this: I've got an amazing career in England that couldn't possibly get much better. I do the best theater…

— Lesley Manville

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to…

— William Shakespeare

A small foot in China, no different from a tiny waist in Victorian England, represented the height of female refinement. For families…

— Amanda Foreman

In, 1950, at the age, 19 I dropped out of St. George William College in Montreal, as it then was, and sailed…

— Mordecai Richler

If the White House could do more to tell parents that getting children reading is their business too, we'd see a big…

— James Patterson

George Bernard Shaw of England stopped over just long enough to make one speech in Bombay, India, started a war and 100…

— Will Rogers

Cows in India occupy the same position in society as women did in England before they got the vote. Woman was revered…

— Stella Benson

I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is,…

— Lord Chesterfield

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

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

— Tom Payne

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

— Michail Antonio

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

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

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

— Donald Bradman

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

— Jorginho

Everyone has a different view on football, but I didn't have a fear that I wouldn't be good enough in England.

— Luka Modric

Fighting in England, for me, is the height of my career. It really is.

— Michael Bisping

Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.

— Thomas Malory

I shouldn't have retired from England. I needed to respect the shirt.

— Ashley Cole

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

— Horace Walpole