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Quotes About England

When I came to England, the first director I met was Charles Sturridge, who told me, 'You speak like somebody out of the 1950s.'
~ Richard E. Grant
I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.
~ Eden Hazard
I'm going to say it out loud: I'm available for England selection if they serve chicken for pre-match.
~ Adebayo Akinfenwa
I'm not going to change my name unless I know that the public are behind England and show that they want me to become Chris Cabanga.
~ Chris Kamara
I loved the first Christmas I had in England.
~ Blythe Danner
The Church in England is the Church of England.
~ Joseph Barber Lightfoot
When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.
~ Rabih Alameddine
I always supported England as a boy; I think it's great to support your national team.
~ Joe Hart
In England, the fans are more spectators than supporters. There's a better atmosphere in French stadiums.
~ Alexandre Lacazette
The English season will be over; I'm a Brazilian who loves my country, so of course I will be following and supporting the side as much as any fan.
~ Philippe Coutinho
I said, even when I was left out, 'I am an England fan, and I'll be supporting the boys.' It's in my blood; it's too hard not to.
~ Jack Wilshere
Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.
~ Bryan Robson
As the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, the Queen feels she cannot be seen to smile in church - and her natural reaction is to combat mirth by putting on a stern face.
~ Ingrid Seward
Beckham is a nice man and I'm sure he will reach 100 appearances for England. But he is just a good player, nothing more.
~ Diego Maradona
I met Xavier Rudd at a surf festival in England.
~ Ben Howard
IHeartRadio was a mind-blowing experience. We're just this little band in England, and we played in between Alicia Keys and Nicki Minaj. It was incredible and surreal.
~ Dan Smith
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least.
~ Richard Dawkins
I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called you "sir" and "madam," and so on. But after a week there, I began to feel wild. It was those ruddy English faces, so held in by duty, the sense of "what is done" and "what is not done," and always swigging tea and chirping, that made me want to scream like a hyena
~ Julia Child
England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in his fat fists.
~ Kage Baker
The Tories in England long imagined that they were enthusiastic about monarchy, the church, and the beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about ground rent.
~ Karl Marx
Lorsque le véritable but fut atteint, c'est-à-dire lorsque fut réalisée la transformation bourgeoise de la société anglaise, Locke évinça Habacuc.
~ Karl Marx
The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.
~ Edmund Burke
England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.
~ Henry James
Underneath this little stone Lies Robert Earl of Huntington; No other archer was so good - And people called him Robin Hood. Such outlaws as he and his men Will England never see again.
~ Roger Lancelyn Green