England Quotes - page 4

People who talk of the spread of music in England and the increasing love of it, rarely seem to know where the growth of the art is really strong and properly fostered: some day the press will awake to the fact, already known abroad and to some few of us in England, that the living centre of music in Great Britain is not London, but somewhere further North. (Edward Elgar)
Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the marshes of Holland, but then the summer ended and most of the painters left, and the long dingy undergarment of the gray New England winter, gray as the spirit of my mood, came down to visit. View quote
Norman Mailer
Norway, too, has noble wild prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England! View quote
Samuel Johnson
Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England. View quote
Samuel Johnson
PENSION - An allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country. View quote
Samuel Johnson
England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just to scrape by. They're all scratching each other's backs. View quote
William S. Burroughs
It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i. e., those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic duties to society and who are compromised by our intellectually dubious commitment to virtue, which can be defined by the perpetual smear-word of French polemic: the bourgeois. (Bourgeois equals humanist.) This word has long been anathema in France where categories are part of the ruling notion of logique. The word cannot be readily matched in England or America. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
God help England if she had no Scots to think for her! View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I am conscious of having served England as I served my own country. (Ferdinand Foch)
I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving, England is mine and it owes me a living. View quote
Morrissey
If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain. England would still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs. View quote
James Connolly
My, I get so depressed after a poor meal; that's why I can never stay in England for more than a week. View quote
Julia Child
Well, I've always thought that my career was in England, really. I used to do more in the theatre, and I felt that I should be there. It's not far is it? It's amazing the way that special FX have taken a quantum leap in what they're capable of doing. View quote
Albert Finney
Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient. View quote
Willa Cather
Thy rare gold ring of verse (the poet praised) Linking our England to his Italy. View quote
Robert Browning
England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more directly about my own experience, it wasn't England so much as what went before. View quote
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous. View quote
Barbara Cartland
In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing. View quote
Christopher Nolan
If Germany, my beloved fatherland, of whom you know I am proud, will not accept me, then must I, in the name of God, again make France or England richer by one capable German; - and to the shame of the German nation. (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes. View quote
Robert Burton
However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications. View quote
Matthew Arnold
That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation. View quote
Matthew Arnold
Stilled legendary depth: It was as deep as England. It held Pike too immense to stir, so immense and old That past nightfall I dared not cast. View quote
Ted Hughes