Quote by Tom Sharpe

“One need not be a rabid Anglican to be extremely sensible to the charm of an English country church...”

— Henry James

“And here, though it makes an odd sound, yet it is necessary to say, that whoever professes himself a member of the Church of…

— Jonathan Swift

The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The broad white road unrolled before the long procession, the sun and sky surveyed it cloudless, the wind tossed the tree boughs above it,…

— Charlotte Brontë

We have in England a particular bashfulness in every thing that regards religion.

— Joseph Addison

We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been…

— Jonathan Sacks

“Of all the wicked heresies and threatening movements facing the church in our day, when Westminster Seminary finally organized their faculty to write something…

— Anonymous

“Am I Catholic or Protestant...? God, I don't know..." -Britain (after having a little too much to drink)”

— Hidekaz Himaruya

“Boy,' said Ralph, squinched up, balled up, feet against chest, eyes tight. 'England is no place to be a sinner.”

— Ray Bradbury

“The brutal fact is that in this Christian country not one person in a hundred has the faintest notion what the Church teaches about…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter…

— Terry Eagleton

The Church in England is the Church of England.

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot