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England Quotes by George Mikes
- Continental people have a sex life; the English have hot-water bottles.
- In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view that two and two make…
- When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.
- On the Continent stray cats are judged individually on their merit-some are loved, some are only respected; in England they are universally worshipped as in…
- In England the boy pats his adored one on the back and says softly, "I don't object, you know." If he is quite mad with…
- People on the Continent either tell you the truth or lie; in England they hardly ever lie, but they would not dream of telling you…
- If somebody tells you an obviously untrue story, on the Continent you would remark, "You are a liar, Sir, and a rather dirty one at…
- On the Continent there is one topic which should be avoided-the weather; in England, if you do not repeat the phrase "Lovely day, isn't it?"…
- The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.
- When a wicked and unworthy subject annoyed the Sultan of Turkey or the Czar of Russia, he had his head cut of without much ceremony;…
- The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.
- On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.
- In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read…
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