England Quotes - Page 19

• Then we did what we called basically I suppose a club tour in England, which was the time I think that our second album came out, we club toured around the whole country where the venues were hold to five hundreds upwards to that sort of thing you know.

  John Deacon

  Country, Thinking, Albums

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• In England, 'Doctor Who' has always been considered a children's show, at least by children.

  Alex Kingston

  Children, Doctors, Shows

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• I love England. I don't really like places when they're too hot. It's my Celtic blood.

  Gary Kemp

  Blood, Hot, Celtic

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• I've lived in Paris. I've lived in the Slovak Republic. I've spent extensive time in England, and I've traveled all over Europe.

  Romany Malco

  Europe, Paris, Republic

  "Romany Malco Talks THINK LIKE A MAN, A LITTLE BIT OF HEAVEN, UNSUPERVISED, and His YouTube Series". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 19, 2012.

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• I think the media has changed, not just in England but in the world.

  Sienna Miller

  Thinking, Media, World

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• I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Theatre, Dialect, Half

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

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• I'm a pro! No, what I mean is I have performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company in England. I have been all over the place. I have studied theatre for seven years.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Mean, Years, Theatre

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

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• In England, you're allowed to have an opinion - as long as it comes out of your mouth.

  Jamie Oliver

  Long, Mouths, Opinion

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

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• My life is really so much based in England.

  Jamie Oliver

  Life Is

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

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• My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.

  Desmond Llewelyn

  Father, Games, Australia

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• The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.

  Margaret Halsey

  Attitude, English History, Insulting

  Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

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• It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they implicitly believe in, merely from the scope it gives to these passions.

  William Hazlitt

  Hate, Believe, Passion

  William Hazlitt (1847). “The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte”, p.236

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• It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Daily Tasks, Insulting, Undressing

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• Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me.

  Wavy Gravy

  Whales, Example, Television

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• From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom.

  Heinrich Heine

  Boredom, Insulting, Kind

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• The people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for pianoforte playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive. There is nothing on earth more terrible than English music, except English painting.

  Heinrich Heine

  Passion, People, Insulting

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• The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that there is almost nothing to resist at all.

  D. H. Lawrence

  People, Insulting, World

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• England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their trade as nowhere else in the western world.

  Colin MacInnes

  Football, Baby, Sweet

  "Out of the way: later essays".

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• The English, who eat their meat red and bloody, show the savagery that goes with such food.

  Julien Offray de La Mettrie

  Insulting, Meat, Red

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• The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.

  Arthur Murray

  People, Insulting, Ruined

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• A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have little doubt that if, say, Oscar Wilde had lived into his nineties, instead of dying in his forties, he would have been considered a benign, distinguished figure suitable to preside at a school prize-giving or to instruct and exhort scout masters at their jamborees. He might even have been knighted.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  School, Mean, Simple

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Hunter (2003). “The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge”, p.40, Regent College Publishing

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• Out of the chaos of post-Roman Dark Age Britain, the English had created the world's first nation-state: One king, one country, one church, one currency, one language and a single unified representative national administration. Never again in England would sovereignty descend to the merely regional level. Never again would the idea of England and the unity of England ever be challenged.

  David Starkey

  Country, Kings, Dark

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• The English are the people of consummate cant.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Insulting, Cant

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.62, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• A nation of ants, morose, frigid, and still preserving the same dread of happiness and joy as in the days of John Knox.

  Max O'Rell

  Joy, Insulting, Ants

  Max O'Rell (1893). “John Bull and His Daughters”

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• FAY: The British police force used to be run by men of integrity. TRUSCOTT: That is a mistake which has been rectified.

  Joe Orton

  Running, Integrity, Mistake

  Joe Orton (2014). “Orton Complete Plays: Entertaining Mr Sloane; Loot; What the Butler; Ruffian; Erpingham Camp; Funeral Games; Good & ...”, p.255, A&C Black

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