Common Quote by Thomas Malthus

England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply…

— Colin MacInnes

The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory.

— Gilbert Burnet

“Here one comes upon an all-important English trait: the respect for constituitionalism and legality, the belief in 'the law' as something above the state…

— George Orwell

The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is…

— H. Rider Haggard

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such…

— Elizabeth I

“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

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“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

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

“It makes me sick,the blindness, deadness, out-of-dateness, stodginess and, yes, sheer jealous malice of the great bulk of England.”

— John Fowles

“Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country where so many desire status and wealth,…

— Christopher Fowler

The laws of England will protect the rights of British subjects, and give a remedy for a grievance committed by one British subject upon…

— Bayley