England Quotes - page 8

b>England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating – the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia... When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch... and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain. (Karl Marx)
If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness. View quote
Voltaire
You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England. View quote
C. S. Lewis
I became one of the stately homos of England. View quote
Quentin Crisp
The distinction between indoors and outdoors, which in England is usually so marked, was temporarily suspended in a hot gauzy haze. View quote
Quentin Crisp
The old laws of England - they Whose reverend heads with age are gray, Children of a wiser day; And whose solemn voice must be Thine own echo - Liberty! View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Thou art Justice - ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England - thou Shield'st alike the high and low. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be represented as a bête noire, the descriptions will be reversed, and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a German man of science for the English! View quote
Albert Einstein
Though the profusion of Government must undoubtedly have retarded the natural progress of England to wealth and improvement, it has not been able to stop it. View quote
Adam Smith
Not so great in England at the moment; in an online poll we came last, we actually came bottom of European countries for quality of life, because of things like the weather, obviously, late retirement, poor holiday, poor public services, poor health service; it's basically just a kind of grey, godless wilderness, full of cold pies and broken dreams. View quote
Bill Bailey
English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England. (Matt Groening)
This is England," he explained. "Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources. View quote
Maureen Johnson
Industrialization came to England but has since left. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness. View quote
Pierre Dukan
When France resolved, along with England, to lend assistance in the legitimate defense of Poland, the realization burst on us that a conflict of awesome proportions was inevitable. View quote
Rene Cassin
After our mom died, her parents (our grandparents) had this big court battle with dad. After six lawyers, two fistfights, and a near fatal attack with a spatula (don't ask), they won the right to keep Sadie with them in England. View quote
Rick Riordan
We heard the army before we saw it. The noise was like a cannon barrage combined with a football stadium crowd- like every Patriots fan in New England was charging us with bazookas. View quote
Rick Riordan
I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather! View quote
Andrew Solomon
I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches - white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat french fries cooked in beef dripping. View quote
Helen Fielding
I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England. View quote
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
England was incredibly dull and everything exciting seemed to be in America. (Gerald Scarfe)
So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do. View quote
Alton Brown
I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books. View quote
Cornelia Funke
My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England. View quote
Alan Bradley
I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England. View quote
Alan Bradley