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England Quotes by Clive James
- Here was my first lesson on the resolutely maintained untidiness and ill-health of the English upper orders. In baggy evening dress and old before their…
- Dinner was meat - not hunks of meat, as in Australia, but pathetic scraps of meat, as in Britain - which the girls upstairs transformed…
- In London there was no home cooking worthy of the name. When you were in funds you ate out. But only the people whose faces…
- In recent years, perhaps encouraged by competition from McDonald's, the British hamburger has become a credit to the nation. At the time of which I…
More England Quotes
- But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness… — Rowan Atkinson
- You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these kids that… — Lester Bangs
- Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense… — Stanley Baldwin
- I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to… — J. G. Ballard
- I love scoring goals for England and playing for England. That's one of the reasons I didn't retire - I love playing… — David Beckham
- We stay as a team. I might be England captain, but that doesn't mean I get treated differently. — David Beckham
- In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in… — Victoria Beckham
- The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders. — Annie Besant
- My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are so exposed… — Juliette Binoche
- I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only… — Bjork