England Quotes

• So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.

  Robert Mugabe

  Zimbabwe, Blair, Let Me

  "Hands off Zimbabwe, Mugabe tells Blair", www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2002.

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• And what should they know of England who only England know?

  Rudyard Kipling

  Should, Knows

  "The English Flag" st. 1 (1892)

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• A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

  George Orwell

  Family, Insulting, Phrases

  The Lion and the Unicorn (1941) pt. 1 "England Your England"

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• Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?

  Oscar Wilde

  Queens, Men, Sea

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.136, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.

  William Blake

  Sleep, Fighting, Hands

  'Milton' (1804-10) Preface 'And did those feet in ancient time'

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• And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Graves, Mets, Alas

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “Elegy In A Country Churchyard”

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• If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish

  John Keble

  Church, Would Be, Failing

  In D. Newsome 'The Parting of Friends' (1966) p. 395

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• If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Fire, Would Be, World

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• We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dresses, Manners, Etiquette

  You Never Can Tell (1898) act 1

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• England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee!

  Philip James Bailey

  Country, Heart, World

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• If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.

  Rupert Brooke

  Army, Thinking, Navy

  "The Soldier" l. 1 (1914)

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• Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, Home, House

  The Common Reader "Lady Dorothy Nevill" (1925) See Crisp 2; Hemans 3

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• King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.

  Joan of Arc

  Kings, Keys, Heaven

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• I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.

  Russell Crowe

  Moving, Australia, Los Angeles

  New York Daily News, 2000.

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• The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  People, World, Enthusiasm

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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• There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.

  Ken Kesey

  Circles, People, Literature

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• England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Unusual

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• Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable.

  Norman Rockwell

  Strong, Character, Unshakable

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• It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Class, Safety, Looks

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1910*). “The English humourists. Critical reviews. The second funeral of Napoleon. The four Georges. Sketches and travels in London”

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• And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

  William Shakespeare

  Military, Army, Thinking

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 35

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• If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.

  Mark Twain

  Weather, Waiting, Minutes

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• I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.

  Jean Alesi

  Moon, No Friends, Firsts

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• In England, if you commit a crime, the police don't have a gun and you don't have a gun. If you commit a crime, the police will say 'Stop, or I'll say stop again.'

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Humor, Gun

  "Robin Williams: An Evening at the Met", www.imdb.com. 1986.

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• The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

  Margaret Halsey

  Upper Class, Insulting, Asking

  With Malice Toward Some pt. 3 (1938)

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• Continental people have a sex life; the English have hot-water bottles.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Sex, Water Bottles

  How to Be an Alien (1946)

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