Quotes About England

We flew over to England by the same route Churchill took. It was easy. All we had to do was follow the cigar ashes.

Thanksgiving, when the Indians said, Well, this has been fun, but we know you have a long voyage back to England.

It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than England manager Sven Goran Eriksson.

England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.

Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.

People on the Continent either tell you the truth or lie; in England they hardly ever lie, but they would not dream of telling you the truth.

English history consists largely of royal people getting their heads chopped off...Needless to say, this brand of history was a hit with our son.

If England are going to win this match, they're going to have to score a goal.

I have some real big goals with England.

I'd rather be in the heart of Africa in the will of God, than on the throne of England, out of the will of God.

This is war, despite what Drake or the Queen prefers to call it, and I want you safe, Isabeau. I want you home in England, safe.

And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.

The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good cause to be.

A dock worker from East Ham also spoke of freedom. "You'll never find the English going Communist" he said. "We don't like it. It's not true Communism, it dictatorial. We want to say what we think. I'm a republican myself and I don't like the Royal Family. They all look as if a good day's work would kill them".

He never flinched, he never cringed, but he died as one would wish all Englishmen to die—quietly and undramatically

Ye gentlemen of EnglandThat live at home at ease,Ah! little do you think uponThe dangers of the seas.

Lady Constance swept into the room as giddy and foolish as ever. To look at her, you would think that nothing unpleasant had ever happened in the whole history of England.

This, I soon discovered, was a typical pub. The 'pub' was an invention of humans living in England, designed as compensation for the fact that they were humans living in England.

Maybe life was automatically better when the sun shone so confidently in April. Everything seemed more vivid, more colourful and alive than it had done in England.

if you look at the Domesday Book, the average size of an English community at that time was a hundred and fifty people. Except in Kent. Where it was a hundred people. I'm from Kent. We have anti-social DNA.

I was not really used to weather you had to think about. But this was England, a part of Earth where thinking about the weather was the chief human activity.

But this was England, a part of Earth where thinking about the weather was the chief human activity.

I soon discovered the Hat and Feathers was a misleading name. In it there was no hat, and absolutely no feathers. There were just heavily inebriated people with red faces laughing at their own jokes. This, I soon discovered, was a typical pub. The 'pub' was an invention of humans living in England, designed as compensation for the fact that they were humans living in England. I rather liked the place.

The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits--on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night air! Only, from the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land, Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand . . .