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Quotes About England

I read about the history of England, of Manchester. I wanted to know how people here live, their interests.
~ Henrikh Mkhitaryan
That's the one thing about being in India. You get to experience superstardom. In England, no one bothers you, really.
~ Jofra Archer
I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
~ Vidal Sassoon
I had seen 'Do the Right Thing' when I was at college, and it was incredibly inspiring as a piece of cinema. Just brilliant, I thought. But saw 'Malcolm X' with a crowded audience. It was my first time in an American cinema, hearing an audience respond. You know, in England, everyone is so restrained.
~ Justin Chadwick
It's nice because working in England I'm know for working in television and theater when you get a chance to come out, it is quite fun to be out from behind the mask. You need to let people know who you are.
~ Jeremy Bulloch
I've worked in a few sort of 'institutional' theaters - the Royal Shakespeare, the National Theater in England - and they're hopelessly top-heavy with bureaucracy.
~ Tim Curry
I love England, the people, the parks, the theatre.
~ Woody Harrelson
I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.
~ Kunal Nayyar
If the Beatles made England swing for the young, then Bond was a travel-poster boy for the earmuff brigade. The Bond films even put a few theme songs, such as Paul McCartney's 'Live and Let Die,' on the pop charts.
~ Richard Corliss
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
Those left at home, the Amises, Murdochs, Drabbles and Byatts, subsisting in an England that has 'been too cosy, too easy to live in', have avoided the shocks of the life overseas and hence have had to 'make literature out of suburban adultery'.
~ Roger Lewis
In England,' I told her, 'the whole thing would probably have been settled by a letter to the Times, after which, under pressure from public opinion, Parliament would simply vote the necessary laws for the protection of the African fauna.
~ Romain Gary
Corvus Corax is Latin for raven," she said. "I asked her what the significance was. She said that the raven is one of the smartest birds, entirely black to blend into the night. There's a legend, dating back to medieval times, that England could never be conquered as long as there were ravens at the Tower of London.
~ Luanne Rice
Annabel better not have headed back to England. He'd wring her bloody neck if she had. She was his. And why the hell would she go there anyway? Surely life with him was better than life with those two coldhearted English— "Nay.
~ Lynsay Sands
They were "Scotch-Irish"—that is, from the lowlands of Scotland, the northern counties of England, and Ulster in Northern Ireland. The borderlands—as this region was known—were remote and lawless territories that had been fought over for hundreds of years. The people of the region were steeped in violence.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
When [Sylvia] Plath committed suicide, the suicide rate for women of her age in England reached a staggering 10 per 100,000. Driven by a tragically high number of deaths by gas poisoning. That is as high as the suicide rate for women in England has ever been. By 1977 when the Natural Gas changeover was complete, the suicide rate for young woman was half that.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Halifax went to Berlin in the fall of 1937 and met with the German leader at Berchtesgaden: he was the only other member of England's ruling circle to have spent time with the Führer. Their meeting wasn't some meaningless diplomatic reception. It began with Halifax mistaking Hitler for a footman and almost handing him his coat. And then
~ Malcolm Gladwell
...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion and of his own sympathy.
~ Baroness Orczy
You wouldn't see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy.
~ Ian Botham
I did my English A level in England, and we studied Shakespeare. I had great, great high school teachers, and we parsed the text within an inch of its life.
~ Joss Whedon
Gianni (Antonioni's friend) was telling us horrifying things today about England, which he found hardly recognizable after an interval of two years. Spiritual degeneration. Money and make-believe replacing the life of the spirit.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
~ Samuel Johnson
The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!
~ Samuel Johnson
Normandy became an appendix to England, the nobler dominion, and received a greater conformity of their laws to the English, that they gave to it.Hale'sCivil Law of England.2. An
~ Samuel Johnson