England Quotes - Page 31

• In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!

  Quentin Crisp

  America, People, Benign

  1985 In The Guardian, 23 Oct.

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• The distinction between indoors and outdoors, which in England is usually so marked, was temporarily suspended in a hot gauzy haze.

  Quentin Crisp

  Hot, Haze, Distinction

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 13, 1968.

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• World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen... A person who truly feels: 'The world is my homeland; it is my America, my India, my Philippines, my England, my Africa,' will never lack scope for a useful and happy life. His natural local pride will know limitless expansion; he will be in touch with creative universal currents.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Pride, Happy Life, Men

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• Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the marshes of Holland, but then the summer ended and most of the painters left, and the long dingy undergarment of the gray New England winter, gray as the spirit of my mood, came down to visit.

  Norman Mailer

  Summer, Winter, Artist

  Norman Mailer (2013). “Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel”, p.11, Random House

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• England was nothing, compared to continental nations until she had become commercial... until about the middle of the last century, when a number of ingenious and inventive men, without apparent relation to each other, arose in various parts of the kingdom, succeeded in giving an immense impulse to all the branches of the national industry; the result of which has been a harvest of wealth and prosperity, perhaps without a parallel in the history of the world.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Numbers, Giving

  "Lives of the Engineers". Book by Samuel Smiles, 1861.

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• I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Rights, Government, People

  Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Letters and Speeches”, p.84

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• He was bare chested and in good trim. I said that just looking at him I knew there would always be an England

  Bob Hope

  One Line, One Liner, Said

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• By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.

  Jonathan Swift

  Country, Freedom, Law

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, D.D”, p.295

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• Far from New England's blustering shore,New England's worm her hulk shall bore,And sink her in the Indian seas,Twine, wine, and hides, and China teas.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wine, Sea, Tea

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.121, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Howbeit, though no scholar, I am not one of those who misuse the English speech, and, being foolishly led by the hasty custom of scriveners and printers to write the letters "T" and "H" joined together, which resembleth a "Y," do incontinently jump to the conclusion the THE is pronounced "Ye,"--the like of which I never heard in all England.

  Bret Harte

  Writing, Together, Letters

  Bret Harte (1902). “Condensed Novels: New Burlesques”

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• Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations. I would not for a moment venture to hint that it was a matter of taste; but I think I will go as far as this: that if a position is admittedly unkind, uncomfortable, unnecessary, and superfluously useless, although it were as respectableasthe Church of England, the sooner a man is out of it, the better for himself, and all concerned.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Thinking, Church

  1878 An Inland Voyage,'At Maubeuge'.

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• A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth. Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Country, Pain, Ignorance

  "Main Street". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1920.

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• The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Editors, Church

  1829 Signs of the Times.

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• Forbes magazine has named Mel Gibson this year's most powerful celebrity. ... Forbes' least powerful celebrity? [Miller displayed the widely circulated image from the Lynndie England photographs of a hooded Iraqi prisoner with wires attached to his outstretched arms] You're looking at him. Screw this guy. ... [He's a] bad guy.

  Dennis Miller

  Powerful, Years, Guy

  "The Dennis Miller Show", June 22, 2004.

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• I have spent some months in England, have seen an awful lot and learned little. England is not a land of science, there is only a widely practised dilettantism, the chemists are ashamed to call themselves chemists because the pharmacists, who are despised, have assumed this name.

  Justus von Liebig

  Learning, Science, Land

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• Everyone knows that England are a far better team than their World Cup performance suggests. It's vital that we play with confidence and take the strength and competition of the engage Super League in to the Four Nations.

  Paul Sculthorpe

  Team, Rugby League, Play

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• The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.

  Joseph Addison

  People, Months, November

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, William Bond (1766). “The Spectator”, p.310

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• England is a very strong league, with three or four of the best teams in Europe, but, if I had played there, I would have destroyed it, like I have everywhere else.

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic

  Football, Strong, Team

  "Zlatan Ibrahimovic: I'd have DESTROYED Premier League defences if I'd moved to England" by Dave Kidd, www.mirror.co.uk. February 23, 2014.

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• A bomb under the West car park at Twickenham on an international day would end fascism in England for a generation.

  Philip Toynbee

  Car, Generations, Bombs

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

  Damian Hopley

  Answers, Rugby, Jonah

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• Head coach of the England team demands management skills that Brian does not have. We had a head coach who wanted one thing, other coaches who wanted other things. The players hadn't a clue what was going on. Somehow we'd managed to turn our World Cup campaign into a Monty Python sketch - called The Life of Brian.

  Lawrence Dallaglio

  Team, Player, Python

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• I know that Martin Johnson [the England coach] was in the stands, but I didn't feel it was up to me to impress them. He and his assistant [Brian Smith] were here to support me.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Support, Assistants, Rugby

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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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• In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Art, Home

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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