England Quotes

1571 England quotes by 1079 unique authors

The whole trouble with the Republicans is their fear of an increase in income tax, especially on higher incomes. They speak of it almost like… — Will Rogers
But the idea of science and systematic knowledge is wanting to our whole instruction alike, and not only to that of our business class ...… — Matthew Arnold
The Gaelic League is founded not upon hatred of England, but upon love of Ireland. Hatred is a negative passion; it is powerful - a… — Douglas Hyde
In the olden days in England, you could be hung for stealing a sheep or a loaf of bread. However, if a sheep stole a… — Mike Harding
The terrible thing in England is if you interview a thousand people, five hundred of them will talk like they're going into a Guy Ritchie… — Ricky Gervais
You can drive 1,000 miles across America and find yourself, whereas if you drive a few miles from Slough you're in London anyway, or you… — Ricky Gervais
One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street. — David Hare
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years. — Brendan Behan
England is my home. I could never leave. I'd miss my family and friends too much. — Melanie Brown
A curious thing happened: the terrains of England began to impinge on my consciousness, altering, then effacing, the world outside the library window… I was… — Garry Disher
This souls'prison we call England. — George Bernard Shaw
Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters. — William Wordsworth
My ability to persuade my wife to marry me [was] quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been impossible for any… — Winston Churchill
Keep England White" is a good slogan. — Winston Churchill
The lights of Saxon England were going out, and in the gathering darkness a gentle, grey-beard prophet foretold the end. When on his death-bed Edward… — Winston Churchill
I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pushkin… — Sylvia Brownrigg
It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the people; for I… — Bill Vaughan
England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the… — Karl Marx
A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of… — Karl Marx
Every one knows that there are no real forests in England.The deer in the parks of the great are demurely domestic cattle, fat as London… — Karl Marx
Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low? — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Thou art Justice ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England thou Shield'st alike the high and low. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The… — John Greenleaf Whittier
We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth -- one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times… — Jimmy Carter

Who Wrote These England Quotes

1,079 authors contributed a total of 1,571 England Quotes, led by these top contributors: