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England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their… — Colin MacInnes
The English, who eat their meat red and bloody, show the savagery that goes with such food. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Continental people have a sex life; the English have hot-water bottles. — George Mikes
A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have little doubt that… — Malcolm Muggeridge
The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined. — Arthur Murray
The English are the people of consummate cant. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A nation of ants, morose, frigid, and still preserving the same dread of happiness and joy as in the days of John Knox. — Max O'Rell
FAY: The British police force used to be run by men of integrity. TRUSCOTT: That is a mistake which has been rectified. — Joe Orton
... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they… — Thomas Love Peacock
The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English. — Unknown Author
An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles. — George Bernard Shaw
Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them. — George Bernard Shaw
The English take their pleasures sadly, after the fashion of their country. — Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of Sully
London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws about drunkenness, immense,… — Paul Verlaine
The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They are both absolutely… — Auberon Waugh
In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen. — Oscar Wilde
Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England… — Oscar Wilde
The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral. — Oscar Wilde
I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it. — Zinedine Zidane
Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police. — Tony Greig
The other advantage England have got when Phil Tufnell is bowling is that he isn't fielding — Ian Chappell
Pakistan would be confident after their series win over England. The series will be a very close and good contest and if all the players… — Greg Chappell
All people seem to want to talk about is the current Ashes series, and whether England are going to reverse the trend of recent series. — Ian Botham
A few years ago England would have struggled to beat the Eskimos — Ian Botham
I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England… — Ian Botham

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