England Quotes - page 11

The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border. (Goldwin Smith)
Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there. View quote
Goldwin Smith
But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him. View quote
Goldwin Smith
I never learned music. I'm quite uneducated, and usually I sat in front of the TV, with soap operas on, in England. It was very inspiring for me, I'd done all this traveling around, I came back living with my parents, everyone around me was like they're living in a soap opera. View quote
Graham Parker
Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting. View quote
Gavin Rossdale
We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great. View quote
George Carey
It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control. View quote
Henry Charles Carey
There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures. View quote
Henry Mayhew
Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England. View quote
Horace Porter
I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test. View quote
Ian Botham
No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic. (James Larkin)
I'm a hard-mouthed north-eastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England. View quote
Jamie Bell
Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself. View quote
Jane Campion
When I first started writing, I was living in England and I had that uniquely English sense of sarcasm, which has definitely seemed to have left me. I am a naturalized American and my sensibility has become far more American. View quote
Jane Green
I really wanted to get out of England. View quote
Jared Harris
I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler. View quote
Jeremy Bulloch
I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past. View quote
Jez Butterworth
And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England. View quote
Jill Dando
New England oysters are better than Chesapeake. But Chesapeake blue crabs are unbeatable. View quote
Jim Himes
American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England. View quote
John Amery
England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses. (John Florio)
I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor. View quote
Jonny Lee Miller
At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does. View quote
Joseph Kanon
My first show, in England, was called 'Soldier, Soldier.' View quote
James Callis
I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had I seen nothing else in England but this, I should have thought my journey thither amply rewarded. View quote
Karl Philipp Moritz