Quotes About England

I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.

Perfidious Albion.

Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England.

A year as an inmate in Kam?t? has taught me what should have been obvious: that the prison system is a repressive weapon in the hands of a ruling minority to ensure maximum security for its class dictatorship over the rest of the population, and it is not a monopoly exclusive to England and South Africa.

Even as the two admirals sat talking, the blockade was being joined by three new ships from England.

the number of capital ships available for the invasion of England had almost doubled overnight.

he would make short work of the final leg of the journey – the hop across the Channel to England.

It did not go to King George III.

Plenty of people in England thought Napoleon was doing precisely that.

England is my city

Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol' for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture, it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world.

Yes, and that is what can be done by SIMPLE methods. But nowadays every one is a mechanic, and wants to open that money chest with an instrument instead of simply. For that purpose he hies him to England. Yes, THAT is the thing to do. What folly!" Kostanzhoglo spat and added: "Yet when he returns from abroad he is a hundred times more ignorant than when he went.

you can be a hero, too. For England.

the Welsh name for 'England', Lloegr, meant 'the Lost Land', I fell for the fancy, imagining what a huge sense of loss and forgetting the name expresses. A learned colleague has since told me that my imagination had outrun the etymology. Yet as someone brought up in English surroundings, I never cease to be amazed that everywhere which we now call 'England' was once not English at all.

Each tile is curved and has an attractive rough texture. The colour varies from bright vermilion to dull Venetian red. They have the patina of almost two centuries of English sunshine and rain and are patterned with mosses in a wide range of emerald, apple and viridian greens. Any one of them, tastefully framed and hung in a London art gallery, would get rave notices from the critics.

In England Ö education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

They teach you how to handle life in England, but they don't teach you a thing about death. There's no book telling you what to do when your mum or dad dies.

conforme España, mal gobernada, continuamente en guerra, endeudada y empobrecida, trataba de reponerse del gran trauma de la derrota de su Armada Invencible frente a los ingleses en 1588.

As Richard mounted his horse to follow, some of his Household protested that he must not wear into battle the helmet with the golden crown, for it would mark him as the prime target for the enemy. Quietly Richard replied that he would live, and die, King of England.

Men of England, heirs of Glory, Heroes of unwritten story, Nurslings of one mighty Mother, Hopes of her, and one another;

la Armada Invencible; ya saben, cañonazo va y ola viene y todo a tomar por saco, con aquel pulso fatal entre nuestro buen Rey Don Felipe Segundo y esa arpía pelirroja que se llamó Isabel de Inglaterra, amparo de protestantes, hideputas y piratas, más conocida por la Reina Virgen, aunque maldito si puede uno imaginarse virgen de qué