England Quotes - Page 36

• You know, nobody eats in England. three or four pints of english beer a night fills you. i can’t say i’m very impressed with the food in America. it’s all sort of bland. like turkey sandwiches.

  Anne Dudley

  Beer, Night, Turkeys

  Interview with Kurt von Finck, blogs.gnome.org. October 14, 2004.

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• My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at that time.

  Garrison Keillor

  Law, America, Puritan

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 30 Mar. 1990

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• The phase of the usury system which we are trying to analyze is more or less Patterson's perception that the Bank of England could have benefit of all the interest on all the money that it creates out of nothing. ... Now the American citizen can, of course, appeal to his constitution, which states that Congress shall have power to coin money or regulate the value thereof and of foreign coin. Such appeal is perhaps quixotic.

  Ezra Pound

  America, Perception, Trying

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• There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers.

  Jilly Cooper

  Praying, Workshops, Nations

  Jilly Cooper (2012). “Angels Rush In”, p.344, Random House

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• Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.

  Mary Ellen Chase

  Diversity, Imagination, Preparation

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• English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.

  Elspeth Huxley

  Tables, Dinner, Might

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• In England, life is a long process of composing oneself.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Long, Life Is, Process

  Shirley Hazzard (2004). “Cliffs of Fall: And Other Stories”, p.66, Macmillan

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• It is possible to eat English piecrust, whatever you may think at first. The English eat it, and when they stand up and walk away, they are hardly bent over at all.

  Margaret Halsey

  Food, Thinking, Firsts

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

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• English life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to an introduction to an introduction to it.

  Margaret Halsey

  Years, Life Is, Surface

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• In the end, in England, when you want to find out how people are feeling, you always go to the pubs.

  Martha Gellhorn

  People, Feelings, Want

  Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.123, Granta Books

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• the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with shock and resentment as if all their lives had been spent in the predictable monsoon.

  Ruth Rendell

  Weather, Climate, World

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• They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country.
  [Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume de leur pays.]

  Jean Froissart

  Country, Pay, Customs

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• Englishmen have a genius for looking uncomfortable. Their feelings are terribly mixed up with their personal appearance.

  Sara Jeannette Duncan

  Feelings, Genius, Appearance

  Sara Jeannette Duncan (2012). “A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London')”, p.165, tredition

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• People in England who do not like gardening are very few, and of the few there are, many do not own to it, knowing that they might just as well own to having been in prison, or got drunk at Buckingham Palace.

  E. M. Delafield

  Knowing, People, Drunk

  E. M. Delafield (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)”, p.4805, Delphi Classics

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• Machines are the opium of the masses. If all the machines in England were thrown into the North Sea tomorrow, we should be back in the Garden of Eden. And the weather would probably improve.

  Helen Cresswell

  Garden, Sea, Weather

  Helen Cresswell (1987). “Ordinary Jack: Being the First Part of the Bagthorpe Saga”, Viking Childrens Books

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• [The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss.

  Pamela Frankau

  Ill Health, Interesting, Effort

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• Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree.

  William Blake

  Agreement, Revolution, States

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.783, Univ of California Press

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• Norway, too, has noble prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England!

  Samuel Johnson

  Noble, Lapland, Norway

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 425 (6 July 1763)

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• Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high,
  But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I

  Charles Kingsley

  Wealth, Rich, Poor

  Charles Kingsley (1872). “Poems: Including The Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda, Songs, Ballads, Etc”, p.230

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• Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a novelist.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Art, Home, Theatre

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• In England if something goes wrong--say, if one finds a skunk in the garden--he writes to the family solicitor, who proceeds to take the proper measures; whereas in America, you telephone the fire department. Each satisfies a characteristic need; in the English, love of order and legalistic procedure; and here in America, what you like is something vivid, and red, and swift.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Writing, Garden, Order

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.164, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Since early middle ages when people generally taking away the barbarity of their like, were pretty content. Although it was all an illicit contentment, what with the slave systems all over the world, in England especially, the peasants and the master, etc. People were incredibly content.

  David Bowie

  People, Contentment, Age

  "New Again: David Bowie". Interview with Patrick Salvo, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 6, 2012.

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• My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed through several editions in foreign countries. I have heard it said that the success of a work abroad is the best test of its enduring value. I doubt whether this is at all trustworthy; but judged by this standard my name ought to last for a few years.

  Charles Darwin

  Country, Book, Years

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29: “Erasmus Darwin” by Ernest Krause, with a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin; “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin” Edited by Nora Barlow; and Consolidated Index”, p.159, NYU Press

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• I grew up in New England. I think I was brought up with the Puritan ethic: that if you worked really hard in life, then good would come to you. The harder you work, the luckier you get. I've come to believe that it's the smarter you work, the better.

  Ken Blanchard

  Success, Believe, Thinking

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• Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.

  Anthony Trollope

  Aristocracy, Politics, Welfare

  Anthony Trollope (1874). “Lady Anna”, p.292

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