England Quotes

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
George Bernard Shaw

Two, America, Same

England is a nation of shopkeepers.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
George Orwell

Family, Control, Wrong

So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.
Robert Mugabe

Keep, Zimbabwe, Blair

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Rule, Graves, Alas

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.
Benjamin Disraeli

I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Scotland is free!
William Wallace

Free, Tell, Rest

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
W. Somerset Maugham

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.
Elizabeth I

Heart, Woman, Body

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.
Lord Byron

Pay, Hypocrisy, Virtue

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
E. M. Forster

Nature, Human, Accept

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.
George Mikes

Good, Food, Manners

If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.
H. P. Lovecraft

Fire, Create, Pure

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Keep, Conscience, Enjoying

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
H. G. Wells

Done, Serious, Between

Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.
Boris Johnson

Play, Between, Rest

In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.
Andrew Jackson

Good, Here, Against

England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly.
Daniel Radcliffe

Home, End, Pretty

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

Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.
David Bowie

Bad, System, Media

There's a good television programme called 'Disco 2.' It's quite good but again it's average, average. It's all on a down play. You know we've got this thing in England to be hip is to speak very down - like John Peel. And that just about sums up England. They don't realize when they talk like that, then that is what they represent - absolutely.
David Bowie

Good, Down, Play

Boy George is all England needs - another queen who can't dress.
Joan Rivers

Another, Needs, Boy

I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.
Alan Rickman

Real, Apathy, Worrying

England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'.
Emo Philips

I think the best place to work in football is England.
Jose Mourinho

Work, Best, Football

In England we are sort of very awkward.
Tom Felton

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Who could say that this is bad?
Terry Pratchett

Bad, Die, Before

England expects that every man will do his duty.
Horatio Nelson

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
W. H. Auden

Happen, America, Here

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
Brian Eno

Country, After, Away

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