Alas Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.

— Anonymous

And what should they know of England who only England know?

— Rudyard Kipling

The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Once upon a time the English knew who they were.

— Anna Pavlova

Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are…

— Angelina Grimke

And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with…

— William Shakespeare

Those who only know England know not England.

— Rudyard Kipling

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

Men of England! who inheritRights that cost your sires their blood.

— Thomas Campbell

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself.…

— William Shakespeare

The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.

— Edmund Burke

It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other…

— Enoch Powell