England Quotes
1571 England quotes by 1079 unique authors
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Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!
— Walter Scott
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Marijuana is rejected all over the world. Damned. In England heroin is alright for out-patents, but marijuana? They'll put your ass in jail. I wonder…
— Lenny Bruce
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The Bible has always been regarded as part of the Common Law of England.
— William Blackstone
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The fact is that Britain is the most warlike nation on earth. In the history of armed combat, we are the only democracy to have…
— Jeremy Clarkson
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Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy.
— Anthony Burgess
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I'm not from around these parts. I'm from a little place called England: we used to run the world before you.
— Ricky Gervais
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Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first:…
— William Shakespeare
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The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength, - the floating bulwark of…
— William Blackstone
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I'm sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I'd want to run the show. They were shrewd,…
— Brian Clough
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Three years after my first trip to Haiti, I realized there was another emotional note that had to be reckoned with: the intense, vibrant color…
— Alex Webb
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Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was like a star,…
— William Wordsworth
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Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee, And left them…
— John Milton
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. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that if…
— James A. Michener
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New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice, not Milan while the American empire careens onward toward its unpredicted…
— Bernard DeVoto
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So . . . I feel in regard to this aged England . . . pressed upon by transitions of trade and . . .…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How long are women to remain a wholly unrepresented body of the people? This is a question that has of late been agitated in England,…
— Unknown Author
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If England was what England seems, And not the England of our dreams; But only putty, brass, and paint, 'Ow we'd chuck 'er- but she…
— Rudyard Kipling
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England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!
— William Cowper
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... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering. I…
— Thomas Jefferson
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But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, England, the…
— Samuel Eliot Morison
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Boy, the things I do for England.
— Prince Charles
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There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles,…
— Oscar Wilde
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Shortly after that, we got management problems over in England, and Judas Priest asked me to join.
— Glenn Tipton
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I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone.
— Ray Davies
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Perhaps we could revisit the issue of World Cup Host selection for 2018/2022 as some countries feel, and we did say, they are more suitable.…
— Sepp Blatter
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