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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• This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

  William Shakespeare

  Blessed, Precious Stones, Paradise On Earth

  1595 John of Gaunt. Richard II, act 2, sc.1, l.40-50.

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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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• 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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• I'm just looking forward to playing, and if anything else comes my way it's a bonus. I'm looking to have an injury-free season and doing things for Lancashire to get us where we belong.

  Stuart Law

  Bonus, Way, Looking Forward

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• Well I've never been to England But I kind of like the Beatles.

  Hoyt Axton

  Kind, Wells

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• He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.

  Brendan Behan

  Years, Born, Englishmen

  'Hostage' (1958) act 1

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• The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land.

  Felicia Hemans

  Beautiful, Home, Land

  "The Homes of England" l. 1 (1849)

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

  Oscar Wilde

  Education, Squares, Class

  Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.16, Heinemann

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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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• Oh, to be in England now that April's there.

  Robert Browning

  April And Spring, April

  "Home-Thoughts, from Abroad" l. 1 (1845)

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• This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Precious Stones, Paradise On Earth

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 40

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• Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware.

  Robert Browning

  Morning, April

  'Home-Thoughts, from the Sea' (1845)

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• England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.

  William Cowper

  Country, Mind, May

  William Cowper, John William Cunningham, William Hayley (1835). “The Life and Works of William Cowper: His life and letters by William Hayley. Now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence”, p.369

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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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• 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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