England Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• 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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• ... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they had anything that exalts, delights, or adorns humanity, we have nothing but cant, cant, cant.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Greek, Humanity, Insulting

  'Crotchet Castle' (1831) ch. 7

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• The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English.

  Julius Caesar Scaliger

  Stupid, Insulting, Savages

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• London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws about drunkenness, immense, though it is really basically only a collection of scandal-mongering boroughs, vying with each other, ugly and dull, without any monuments except interminable docks.

  Paul Verlaine

  Law, Ducks, Drunk

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• The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They are both absolutely right.

  Auberon Waugh

  Two Sides, Insulting, Loathing

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• In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Men, Rights

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1583, Delphi Classics

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• The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Insulting, Interest

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Miscellanies”, p.135, Oscar Wilde

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• I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Opportunity, Play, Littles

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

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• Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police.

  Tony Greig

  Police, London, Grew

  "Investigator details charges". "NBC News Investigates", www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2004.

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• At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec and Palmyra.

  Horace Walpole

  Giving, Curiosity, Lasts

  Letter to Horace Mann, 24 Nov. 1774 See Macaulay 9

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• Pakistan would be confident after their series win over England. The series will be a very close and good contest and if all the players play to their potential we're in for some wonderful cricket.

  Greg Chappell

  Winning, Player, Would Be

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• All people seem to want to talk about is the current Ashes series, and whether England are going to reverse the trend of recent series.

  Ian Botham

  People, Ashes, Trends

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• A few years ago England would have struggled to beat the Eskimos

  Ian Botham

  Years, Years Ago, Beats

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• I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test

  Ian Botham

  Team, Thinking, Two

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• There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.

  Washington Irving

  Morning, Book, Home

  Washington Irving (1843). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq. (Wasington Irving)”, p.172

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• In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Disappointment, Crazy, Exercise

  Oscar Wilde, Merlin Holland (2003). “Collins complete works of Oscar Wilde”, HarperCollins UK

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• A Strat was a thing of wonder .. when I was 14 or 15, the Shadows were a big influence, and they had the first Strats that came to England. I like to play all kinds of guitars, but I wasn't getting the sound I really wanted until I got a Stratocaster

  Mark Knopfler

  Music, Guitar, Play

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• Look to your consciences and remember that the theatre of the world is wider than the realm of England.

  Mary, Queen of Scots

  Theatre, Looks, World

  "Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart". Book by John Guy, 2005.

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• I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Years, Alarmists, Environmentalist

  "The Doomslaye" by Ed Regis, www.wired.com. February 1, 1997.

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• England's always expecting. No wonder they call her the Mother Country

  Fred Trueman

  Mother, Country, Wonder

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• One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England.

  Steven Morrissey

  People, Torture, Concern

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

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• My coming to England in this way is, as I realize, so unusual that nobody will easily understand it. I was confronted by a very hard decision. I do not think I could have arrived at my final choice unless I had continually kept before my eyes the vision of an endless line of children's coffins with weeping mothers behind them, both English and German, and another line of coffins of mothers with mourning children.

  Rudolf Hess

  Mother, Children, Eye

  "Rudolf Hess: Prisoner of Peace". Book by Ilse Hess, 1982.

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