England Quotes

England and America are two countries separated by the same language. (George Bernard Shaw)
England expects that every man will do his duty. View quote
Horatio Nelson
You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of England have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower the real price of labour. View quote
Thomas Malthus
It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
At the moment there are some England players who are the stars of their club teams, but not for their country. It's difficult to explain. View quote
Diego Maradona
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days. View quote
Andrew Wiles
We dont bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we dont dress well and weve got no manners. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
On the Continent people have good food; in England, people have good table manners. View quote
George Mikes
England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors. View quote
George Santayana
Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be. (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of our island. View quote
William Blackstone
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. View quote
H. G. Wells
If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea. View quote
Sean O`Casey
Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced. View quote
James Nasmyth
On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they the Colonies raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. View quote
Daniel Webster
Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still. View quote
Charles Churchill (satirist)
I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack. View quote
Russell Crowe
The men of England, the men, I mean, of light and leading in England. View quote
Edmund Burke
OATS, 'n'. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. View quote
Samuel Johnson
It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous. (Jim Henson)
If any-thing, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the U. S. View quote
Jim Henson
The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, – but never England. View quote
George Mikes
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd The next, in majesty in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go To make a third, she join'd the former two. View quote
John Dryden