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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• 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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• There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.

  Winston Churchill

  Mean, Saint George, Forgotten

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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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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• 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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• 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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• Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Government, Insulting, Public Opinion

  'Man and Superman' (1903) act 3

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• The English take their pleasures sadly, after the fashion of their country.

  Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of Sully

  Country, Fashion, Insulting

  "Memoirs". Book by Maximillian, Duc de Sully, 1827.

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• Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thinking, People, Insulting

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.209, Courier Corporation

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• Old England is our home, and Englishmen are we; Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag in every sea.

  Mary Howitt

  Home, Sea, Flags

  "Old England is our Home". Poem by Mary Howitt; later quoted in John Bartlett "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.

  John Florio

  Horse, Men, Paradise

  'Second Frutes' (1591) ch. 12

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• Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

  Charles Stewart Parnell

  Ireland And The Irish, Should, Fragments

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• Finally, I have lived the dream. I am extremely proud to have worn the armband and been captain of England and for that I will always be grateful.

  David Beckham

  Dream, Grateful, Proud

  "Terry in line as Beckham hands in his armband" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2006.

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• I'm very happy to be back playing rugby for England again - there were times when I questioned if this would happen.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Rugby, Very Happy, Happens

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• There are no secrets about England - they are searching for positives.

  Shane Warne

  Secret

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• I am still young and being the [England] squad is really good for me although I've still got a lot to learn.

  Jermain Defoe

  Squad, Young, Stills

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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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