England Quotes - Page 11

• Me? As England's answer to Jonah Lomu? Joanna Lumley, more likely.

  Damian Hopley

  Answers, Rugby, Jonah

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• I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.

  Peter Porter

  Mean, Years, People

  Interview with John Kinsella, www.johnkinsella.org. 1998.

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• I am patriot enough to take pains to bring this usefull invention into fashion in England, and I should not fail to write to some of our Doctors very particularly about it, if I knew anyone of 'em that I thought had Virtue enough to destroy such a considerable branch of Revenue for the good of Mankind, but that Distemper is too beneficial to them not to expose to all their Resentment the hardy wight that should undertake to put an end to it.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Fashion, Pain, Writing

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1816). “Lettres de Lady Marie Wortley Montagu, 'ecrites Pendant Ses Voyages en Europe, en Asie Et en Afrique”, p.322

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• I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.

  Jonny Lee Miller

  New York, Dirty, Humor

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• The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Team, Fighting, Ends

  "ZZ top" by Andrew Hussey, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2004.

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• Lichfield, England. Swallows certainly sleep all winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lye in the bed of a river.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sleep, Winter, Rivers

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• Good night; ensured release, Imperishable peace, Have these for yours. * While sky and sea and land And earth's foundations stand And heaven endures. *These three lines are on the tablet over Housman's grave in the parish church at Ludlow, Shropshire, England

  A. E. Housman

  Good Night, Sea, Land

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• The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs, celebrity dreams, Lotto wins, leisured poverty on pre-crunch credit cards, it's all there, part of the story of an English people whose grandparents never had it so good.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Dream, Jobs, Winning

  "The age of indifference" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2009.

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• In a few years there will be only five kings in the world the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.

  Farouk of Egypt

  Kings, Years, Cards

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• With all the defects in our Constitution, whether general or particular, the comparison of our government with those of Europe, is like a comparison of Heaven with Hell. England, like the earth, may be allowed to take the intermediate station.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Europe, Heaven

  B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.236

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• Will I return to England? I don't know. I'll think it over.

  Lillie Langtry

  Thinking, Return, Comeback

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• I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them.

  Wilfrid Laurier

  Disrespect, Titles, Crowns

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• I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Government receive any severe and irreparable check, will not the resources of England be called upon to meet the emergency, and to supply the deficiency?

  Richard Cobden

  Government, India, Emergencies

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.392

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• I felt I wasn't getting anywhere in England.

  Bob Hope

  One Line, One Liner, Felt

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• I see the Beatles have arrived from England. They were 40 pounds overweight - and that was just their hair.

  Bob Hope

  Hair, One Line, Pounds

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• In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war.

  Pierre Laval

  War, Winning, Europe

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed.

  David Thewlis

  Monday, London, Lasts

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up.

  Johnny Winter

  Writing, Hands, Names

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• I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.

  Davy Jones

  Horse, Agriculture, Farms

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• "The Church of England," I said, seeing that Mr. Inglesant paused, "is no doubt a compromise."

  Joseph Henry Shorthouse

  Doubt, Church, Compromise

  Joseph Henry Shorthouse (1902). “John Inglesant: A Romance ...”

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• Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

  John Milton

  Teaching, Forget, Nations

  'The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce' (1643) 'To the Parliament of England'

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• I had to come to the United States to prove myself. I fought for a long time in England and a lot of people thought I was a protected fighter.

  Ricky Hatton

  Motivation, Long, People

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• The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  History, Three, Slavery

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1975). “History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne”, Ayer Company Pub

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• I'm not from around these parts. I'm from a little place called England: we used to run the world before you.

  Ricky Gervais

  Running, America, World

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• New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Home, Noble, Opinion

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