England Quote by Ken Follett

“If there is an injustice or a barbarity possible, I might have been sure the law of England would make haste to perpetrate it.”

— Grant Allen

“Savages are dangerous neighbours and unprofitable customers, and if they remain as degraded denizens of our colonies, they become a burden upon the State.”

— Adam Hochschild

“In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting. Daring burglaries by armed men, and highway robberies,…

— Charles Dickens

“Indeed, during the ensuring centuries, Englishmen repeatedly protested that a king could “not break or dispense with the positive laws,” and they asked, “What…

— Philip Hamburger

“We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English; and the English are the best at everything. So…

— William Golding

“I thought to myself: this is how civilisation ends. Standards decline, accountability ends, the rule of law is impotent, the thugs take over and…

— Adam Nevill

“For this is England where a man's neighbours will never suffer him to live entirely bereft of society, let him be as dry and…

— Susanna Clarke

“When have I, when have I ever forced anyone to do anything, he starts to say: but Richard cuts in, "No, you don't, I…

— Hilary Mantel

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

— William Golding

“Battles against Rome have been lost and won before, but hope was never abandoned, since we were always here in reserve. We, the choicest…

— Tacitus

So I'm over there in England, you know, trying to get news about the riots... and all these Brit people are trying to sympathize…

— Bill Hicks

“So I'm over there in England, you know, trying to get news about the [L.A.] riots... and all these Brit people are trying to…

— Bill Hicks