England Quotes - page 7

If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called Damn It. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
In my opinion, a war between England and Germany was a war between brothers. In my inner self I admired the English government and political system. View quote
Walter Schellenberg
The democracy which shows up in the United States and in England is not an ideal democracy, because the will of the people is under the pressure of property, which is in the hands of the wealthy capitalists. View quote
Hans Fritzsche
The United States is at present so demoralized and so corrupted that, like France and England, it need not be taken into consideration as a military adversary. View quote
Richard Walther Darré
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion! View quote
Sydney Smith
I am the Prince of Wales and think not, Percy, To share with me in glory any more Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere Nor can one England brook a double reign. View quote
William Shakespeare
Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is permanently top nation, that foreigners do not matter, and that if the worst comes to the worst, Lord Salisbury will send a gunboat. View quote
Ronald Knox
Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out. View quote
Hugh Latimer
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. View quote
Elizabeth I of England
I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable. View quote
Mark Twain
If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes. (Mark Twain)
We know that England is crying for a leader, and that leader has emerged in the person of the greatest Englishman I have ever known, Sir Oswald Mosley ... When the history of Europe comes to be written I can assure you that his name will not be second to either Mussolini or Hitler. View quote
William Joyce
The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler. View quote
William Joyce
Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won! View quote
Walter Scott
England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. ‘Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; ‘Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year. View quote
Walter Scott
I am prepared. The more pressure there is, the stronger I am. In Portugal, we say the bigger the ship, the stronger the storm. Fortunately for me, I have always been in big ships. FC Porto was a very big ship in Portugal, Chelsea was also a big ship in England and Inter was a great ship in Italy. Now I'm at Real Madrid, which is considered the biggest ship on the planet. View quote
José Mourinho
I studied Italian five hours a day for many months to ensure I could communicate with the players, media and fans. [Claudio] Ranieri had been in England for five years and still struggled to say ‘good morning' and ‘good afternoon. View quote
José Mourinho
My ability to persuade my wife to marry me [was] quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been impossible for any ordinary man to have got through what I had to go through in peace and war without the devoted aid of what we call, in England, one's better half. View quote
Winston Churchill
"Keep England White" is a good slogan. View quote
Winston Churchill
The lights of Saxon England were going out, and in the gathering darkness a gentle, grey-beard prophet foretold the end. When on his death-bed Edward spoke of a time of evil that was coming upon the land his inspired mutterings struck terror into the hearers. View quote
Winston Churchill
The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution, there were no limits (save for the effect of trail by jury) to what the legislature might do. (Bernard Bailyn)
In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection. View quote
Bernard Bailyn
If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin; but it is not of Edward of England I shall ask pardon. View quote
William Wallace
Every one knows that there are no real forests in England. The deer in the parks of the great are demurely domestic cattle, fat as London alderman. View quote
Karl Marx
A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children. View quote
Karl Marx