England Quote by George Bernard Shaw

There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.

— Chris O'Dowd

England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.

— John Cleese

The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

— Agnes Repplier

The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the…

— Oscar Wilde

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.

— George Orwell

The Monarchy...is the secret well from which the flourishing institution of British Snobbery draws its nourishment

— Kingsley Martin

England is the pinnacle of any Englishman's career.

— Conor Coady

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also…

— Pete Townshend

In England, we're arrogant to everything else.

— Bradley Wright-Phillips

England is so dominant within the U.K. that separate English and U.K. parliaments and governments are a recipe for weakness and instability.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I

— Charles Kingsley

England's just very cynical.

— Winston Marshall