Asylums Quote by Virginia Woolf

This souls'prison we call England.

— George Bernard Shaw

I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.

— A. E. Housman

“There are no beautiful houses in England now. Only ruins, mental homes, and Government offices.”

— Robert Aickman

The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand.

— Noel Coward

“My definition of LUNATIC ASYLUM: A place where lunatics are created.”

— Jim Fergus

The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.

— Julian Clary

That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.

— Thomas Carlyle

I've always got a home in England. My family and friends are there. It's a place I hold very close to me.

— Jason Statham

England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent…

— Leon Trotsky

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land.

— Felicia Hemans

I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated fromlong housekeeping,…

— Henry David Thoreau