England Quotes - Page 4

• You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Dog, Literature, Englishmen

  'The Loved One' (1948) ch. 1

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• The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth.

  Tony Blair

  Special, World, Earth

  "Full text of Tony Blair's resignation speech". Times Online, May 10, 2007.

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• Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone,
  But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Sea, Tree, Littles

  Rudyard Kipling (2012). “Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

  Novalis

  Islands, Englishmen

  "Fragments". Book by Novalis, 1799.

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• 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.

  Elizabeth I

  Leadership, Courage, Kings

  Speech to troops at Tilbury, England (1588).

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• The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Change, Serious, February

  The Twelve Seasons: A Perpetual Calendar for the Country "February: The OneWe Could DoWithout" (1949)

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• When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.

  Bette Midler

  Inspirational, New York, Humorous

  Quoted in Jerusalem Post, 24 Feb. 1989

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• England expects that every man will do his duty.

  Horatio Nelson

  War, Men, Horatio

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.149, Cambridge University Press

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• England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Country, Two, America

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• I didn't realise you could travel so far and still be in England.

  Kevin Bond

  Soccer, Football, Realising

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• I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know those huge paintings?-I'm just amazed. You don't think a painter could do something like that. I can look at a piece of sculpture or a painting and totally lose myself in it.

  Michael Jackson

  Art, Thinking, Museums

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Jul 11, 2013

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• I've always felt that English women had to be approached in a sisterly manner, rather than an erotic manner.

  Anthony Burgess

  Erotic, Sisterly, Felt

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• 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.

  Walter Schellenberg

  Brother, War, Government

  Letter to Leon Goldensohn. Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004, March 13, 1946.

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• In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Distance, Atrocities, Gone

  "Paperback Q&A: Cynthia Ozick on Foreign Bodies". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2012.

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• In all times and in all places--in Constantinople, northwestern Zambia, Victorian England, Sparta, Arabia, . . . medieval France,Babylonia, . . . Carthage, Mahenjo-Daro, Patagonia, Kyushu, . . . Dresden--the time span between childhood and adulthood, however fleeting or prolonged, has been associated with the acquisition of virtue as it is differently defined in each society. A child may be good and morally obedient, but only in the process of arriving at womanhood or manhood does a human being become capable of virtue--that is, the qualities of mind and body that realize society's ideals.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Children, Zambia, Childhood

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• They make other nations seem pale and flighty,
  But they do think England is God almighty,
  And you must remind them now and then
  That other countries breed other men.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Country, Men, Thinking

  Alice Duer Miller (2013). “The White Cliffs”, Read Books Ltd

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• You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom, with all their virtue--and are very conversable and agreeable--their educations are more finished.

  Fanny Burney

  Sarcastic, Women, Scotland

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• England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world. And, as the men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Women, Inspire, Culture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2153, Delphi Classics

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• The civilized nations--Greece, Rome, England--have been sustained by the primitive forests which anciently rotted where they stand. They survive as long as the soil is not exhausted. Alas for human culture! little is to be expected of a nation, when the vegetable mould is exhausted, and it is compelled to make manure of the bones of its fathers. There the poet sustains himself merely by his own superfluous fat, and the philosopher comes down on his marrow-bones.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Father, Rome

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• England can end the millenium as it started - as the greatest football nation in the world.

  Kevin Keegan

  Soccer, Football, World

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• There'll be spring every year without you. England still will be here without you.

  Frederic Loewe

  Spring, Years, World

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• Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy.

  Anthony Burgess

  America, Victory, Democracy

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• [Thomas Henry] Huxley, I believe, was the greatest Englishman of the Nineteenth Century—perhaps the greatest Englishman of all time. When one thinks of him, one thinks inevitably of such men as Goethe and Aristotle. For in him there was that rich, incomparable blend of intelligence and character, of colossal knowledge and high adventurousness, of instinctive honesty and indomitable courage which appears in mankind only once in a blue moon. There have been far greater scientists, even in England, but there has never been a scientist who was a greater man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Honesty, Believe, Character

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• I fancy that England is not the only place where married folks disagree, and where there are bad husbands. If one does not care to meet with such cases, one must quit this world. Those wishing to enter the marriage state had better not come to me for advice, for I disapprove of it altogether.

  Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans

  Marriage, Husband, Advice

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• Ever since you're little you hear this: 'The pilgrims left England to escape religious persecution and sneak religious freedom into the new world.' But even when you're little you're like, 'Umm.. Bullsh*t?'

  Greg Proops

  Religious, Funny Thanksgiving, World

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