England Quotes

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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… — Clive James
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… — Clive James
England is a very popular foreign country to visit because the people there speak some English. — Dave Barry
England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria. — Dave Barry
They have a lot of trouble with pronunciation, because they can't move their jaw muscles, because of malnutrition caused by wisely refusing to eat English… — Dave Barry
English history consists largely of royal people getting their heads chopped off...Needless to say, this brand of history was a hit with our son. — Dave Barry
There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that… — Douglas Adams
The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead. — George Mikes
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;… — George Mikes
The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today. — George Mikes
The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in… — Jerome K. Jerome
Rock and roll is catching on all over . . . France . . . England . . . They even have it in Japan,… — Bob Hope
But nothing ever put 'Hoppy' in the shade. No one could fail to recognize in the little figure... the authentic gold of intellectual inspiration, the… — Joseph Needham
The tastes and pursuits of manhood will bear on them the traces of the earlier impressions of our education. It is therefore not unreasonable to… — Charles Babbage
As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised… — Jenny Eclair
The history of governmentally established religion, both in England and in this country, showed that whenever government had allied itself with one particular form of… — Hugo Black
A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination, why they never… — John Steinbeck
I never learned music. I'm quite uneducated, and usually I sat in front of the TV, with soap operas on, in England. It was very… — Graham Parker
England can never be ruined except by a Parliament. — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
In Europe, where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one's got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in Italy… — Sybille Bedford
I still pay full tax when I work in England and the same when I work in America. — Sean Connery
Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon. — Stefan Zweig
People who go to the polar regions are statistically less likely to die than salesmen who drive on motorways in England. — Ranulph Fiennes
O happy dogs of England, Bark well at errand boys, If you lived anywhere else, You would not be allowed to make such an infernal… — Stevie Smith
In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol… — Alex Ferguson

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