England Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?

  William Blake

  Time, Feet, Mountain

  Milton preface (1804 - 1810)

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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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• 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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• Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Air, Sea, Land

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.8

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• There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Kings, Patriotic, Fighting

  The Man of Destiny (1898)

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• The New World's sons from England's breast we drew
  Such milk as bids remember whence we came,
  Proud of her past wherefrom our future grew,
  This window we inscribe with Raleigh's fame.

  James Russell Lowell

  Son, Past, 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 forever England. There shall be
  In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
  A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
  Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
  A body of England's, breathing English air,
  Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

  Rupert Brooke

  Flower, Book, Home

  'The Soldier' (1914)

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• Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any.

  Margaret Halsey

  Shoes, Looks, Made

  With Malice Toward Some pt. 2 (1938)

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• Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep.

  Thomas Campbell

  Home, Mountain, Towers

  Thomas Campbell (1839). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell: Including Theodric, and Many Other Pieces Not Contained in Any Former Edition”, p.104

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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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• 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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