Quotes About England

I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.

My interest in drawing has died down here in England, but maybe I'll be in the mood again some day or other. Right now I am doing a great deal of reading

It started to rain overhead, big sloppy droplets, but only in their immediate vicinity of about five feet. However, this being England, no one was particularly flummoxed even by such a particularly localized, extraordinarily specific example of maudlin weather.

most people in England had no access to a dentist

England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible.

Scholes was England's best football player. It was impossible to take the ball from him, and he never mishit a pass.

The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.

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

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.

Indeed, to make tobacco in large enough quantities to satisfy the needs and the quotas from markets in England, the Virginia nobility—the true gentlemen farmers—became accustomed to building and maintaining their vast plantations by the utilization of great numbers of slaves, who cared not only for their masters' fields, but also for their bodies, their horses, their houses, and their children.

In the old wild days of the world there was a king of England known as Uther Pendragon; he was a dragon in wrath as well as in power.

In 1076 he decreed that none of the English clergy would be allowed to marry.

Here is another vignette of medieval England. John and Agnes Page, from a village in Kent, took John Pistor to the manor court. Agnes Page had purchased John Pistor's wife in exchange for a pig worth 3 shillings; John Pistor was happy with the arrangement for a while, but eventually he asked that his wife be returned to him on payment of 2 shillings. The bargain was agreed, but Pistor did not pay the sum. The jury found against him.

At the beginning of the twelfth century, the rabbit was introduced to England.

The England of Edward I was more populous than that of Elizabeth I or of George II.

Although their populations ranged only from 20 to 200 people, we may see in them the beginnings of urban life in England. The author believes that London was once just such a hill fort, but the evidence for it is now buried beneath the megalopolis it has become.

Only in the nineteenth century did the English throne renounce its claim to the French crown.

The shires of England were unique, their boundaries lasting for more than a thousand years until the administrative reorganization of 1974.

Only after the arrival of the Normans in England was there any formal separation between Church and State.

The English rose against William every year between 1067 and 1070.

England is broken. And I don't know if they'll ever be able to fix it.

wrote White, expressing the firm belief that 'England will best Germany because Germany is wicked, and the English, if not salt of the earth, are "good" men

John Gielgud thought 'he was never the same after leaving England, though he wouldn't have admitted it. I think that tax business, and the way people reacted to it, shocked him . . . He wasn't much good as a tax exile. He didn't do a lot with his money. His houses were commonplace, the food dreadful, the decoration pretty amateurish.

America is a crippled giant, England is a sick gnome.