Quotes About England

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

For the Church of Sweden, the Church of England, the German Lutheran Church and many other branches of European Christianity, the message of the religion has become a form of left-wing politics, diversity action and social welfare projects.

Dickens's humanity and compassion made an extraordinary impact on Victorian England through his writings, which remain immensely popular. This bicentenary should help renew our commitment to improving the lot of the disadvantaged of our own day." - The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster Abbey, on today's 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens' birth.

It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.

I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again.

The only difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England, Franklin joked, is that the former is infallible while the latter is never in the wrong.

In January 2012, the China Investment Corporation bought a 8.68 percent investment in Thames Water, the largest water utility in England, serving parts of the Greater London area, Thames Valley, and Surrey. In November of that year

My siamese twins moved to England so the other one could drive.

England produces the best fat actors.

Yet the British group did not have the legislative focus of the Germans. 'We do not think', they declared, 'the time has yet arrived in England for a similar demand to be made

Dr. Pestova, who trained in England, has five thousand patients a year.

France is not England, and nowhere do they differ more than in their attitude towards intellectuals, toward women, and toward those who happen to be both.

all sorts of other luxuries we hadn't been used to in England. The pool was cleaned by a guy called

David Beckham, for me, every time he came to England camps he was an extremely professional football player.

Only in England would 'professor gets divorced and remarried' be a story.

When you become England manager, the change in profile and interest in what you're doing is on another level.

The previous year it had taken England all their time to beat the full German team in an international and I had taken with me the programme from that match.

I've been playing for England at every single youth team level, so it's like a natural progression into the seniors, and I'm obviously delighted with my progress.

When I make films, I work with Mike Leigh, who's the most prolific director in England.

We all grew up aware of Agatha Christie; there is no writer more prolific than her in England.

I love watching England and what they are doing. But I can promise you I've not thought about anything that high.

The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word 'No.'

I had proposals from England, but I believe they would have had to adapt to my style.

It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies.