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England Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the…
- There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.
- The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.
- We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
- An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.
- Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.
- I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder…
- We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable…
- God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.
- Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years…
- This souls'prison we call England.
- England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
- If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.
- If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam
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- 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