England Quotes - Page 3

• Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn,
  Greater are none beneath the Sun
  Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Poetry, Tree, Ashes

  'Puck of Pook's Hill' (1906) 'A Tree Song'

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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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• Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose.

  William Cowper

  Giving, World, Foe

  William Cowper (1855). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life, and Critical Notice of His Writings. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.370

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• In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English.

  Bertrand Barere

  Ugly, Hats, Spite

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• I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.

  William Blake

  Sleep, Fighting, Hands

  'Milton' (1804-10) Preface 'And did those feet in ancient time'

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• They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood.

  Bob Hope

  Hollywood, Comedy, Ifs

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• England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

  Victor Hugo

  Bible, Book, Two

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• I beseech you now with all my heart definitely to let me know your whole mind as to the love between us.

  Henry VIII of England

  I Love You, Heart, Love Is

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• I travelled among unknown men,
  In lands beyond the sea;
  Nor England! did I know till then
  What love I bore to thee.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Nature, Travel

  'I travelled among unknown men' (1807)

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• Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day.

  John Bishop

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Lying, People, Majority

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.1762, e-artnow

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• The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.

  Edmund Burke

  Leadership, Mean, Men

  Edmund Burke (2010). “On Taste on the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the Revolution, A Letter to a Noble Lord”, p.249, Cosimo, Inc.

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• An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Patriotic, Fighting, Insulting

  The Man of Destiny (1898)

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• Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

  John Dryden

  Tails, Stubborn, Lions

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.22, Pearson Education

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• Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

  Jane Austen

  Healthy, London, Londoners

  Jane Austen (1854). “Emma: A Novel”, p.91

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• We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dresses, Manners, Etiquette

  You Never Can Tell (1898) act 1

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• England is a nation of shopkeepers.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Business, Insulting, Shopkeepers

  Quoted in Barry E. O'Meara, Napoleon in Exile (1822). The Pennsylvania Gazette, 20 Aug. 1794, prints "Barrere's Report of the Naval Action of the 1st of June" to the National Convention of France, 16 June. Included in this report is the sentence: "Let Pitt then boast of this victory of his nation of shop-keepers (national boutiquiere.)" The author was revolutionary and legislator Bertrand Barrere. See Adam Smith 7; Josiah Tucker 1

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• On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.

  George Mikes

  Food, People, Cooking

  How to Be an Alien (1946)

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• This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,--This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Wall, War

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 40

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• Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.

  Charles Churchill

  Country, Faults, Stills

  The Farewell l. 27 (1764)

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• We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Shopkeepers, Nations

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.611, Delphi Classics

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• Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?

  Bill Vaughan

  Heart, Brave, Found

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• Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• This England never did, nor never shall,
  Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Memorable, Feet

  'King John' (1591-8) act 5, sc. 7, l. 112

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• England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!

  William Cowper

  Love, Country, Faults

  The Task bk. 2 "The Timepiece" l. 206 (1785) See Charles Churchill 1

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