Quote by Stephen Fry

“pleasure at word that you were en route from England.”

— Sandee Keegan

“where a party of untrained English Territorials tried to hold them with a barricade of cardboard boxes.”

— Walter Lord

“Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. Especially seeing England presents thee with so many…

— W.G. Hoskins

“Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage.”

— Catherine Douzel

“I remember years ago a guy I knew told me that people going to England find exactly what they go looking for. I said…

— Helene Hanff

“Thus the British Empire came into existence; and thus - for there is no stopping damp; it gets into the inkpot as it gets…

— Virginia Woolf

“In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once,…

— Anna Quindlen

“Britannia, that unfortunate female, is always before me, like a trussed fowl; skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with…

— Charles Dickens

“O, let us pay the time but needful woe, Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs. This England never did, nor never shall,…

— William Shakespeare

“I’ve always wanted to go to England. I just never thought it would be after I was dead, on a quest, on a bright…

— Rick Riordan

“I feel this evening that I am too hopelessly and happily corrupted by the richness of London life to ever be right for Dorset,…

— Michael Palin

“--a drive in the country, an expedition to a shoe shop a quiet cup of tea under a cloudless sky; each of us had…

— Alexander McCall Smith