England Quote by James Nasmyth

“At the beginning of his reign, England had to import almost all of its guns from abroad; by the time of his death, England’s…

— Max Boot

Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from…

— William Cowper

I discovered freedom for the first time in England.

— Anonymous

The pre-war empire had been sufficiently informal and sufficiently cheap for Parliament to claim authority over it without having to concern itself too much…

— Linda Colley

It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the…

— Fritz Sauckel

Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.

— Lloyd Alexander

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

— Edward Bond

I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So…

— Vidal Sassoon

It just seemed like a lot of my work centered around England for a number of years.

— Mary Steenburgen

If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

When the War ended in 1945, I started selling vacuum cleaners door to door. Then I sold insurance door to door. I even tried…

— Clint Walker

My mum's from a very rural village in Nigeria, she grew up in a war, and for her it was really important that my…

— Vick Hope