England Quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Thomas Cromwell is now about fifty years old. He has a labourer's body, stocky, useful, running to fat. He has black hair, greying now,…

— Hilary Mantel

No Englishman is ever fairly beaten

— George Bernard Shaw

He was not only a bore; he bored for England.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

The gun of the father is always the undoing of the son.

— Mohsin Hamid

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man…

— Harper Lee

...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion…

— Baroness Orczy

“Around about now, young John Owen comes out of the shack lugging my old musket from the War. At six years of age, our…

— Peter Matthiessen

English history consists largely of royal people getting their heads chopped off...Needless to say, this brand of history was a hit with our son.

— Dave Barry

He seems to have declared war on the King’s English as well as on the English king.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Do you men still know how to fight?” he (GW) roared. A primal cry erupted around him. “Then fall in and show those redcoats…

— Newt Gingrich

In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

— William Shakespeare