Quotes About England

England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies and humours.

Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England.

To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.

Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

I try to play in one way all my career and here, with high pressing, but it is different in England. Many times the ball is more in the air than the grass, and I have to adapt.

'A Spy in the House', the first of Y. S. Lee's 'The Agency' novels, is pure confection, an historical romp through England at the height of The Great Stink that imagines a secret spy ring for women tucked away where few notice but powerful factions clamor for their services.

You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't say I'm very impressed with the food in America. it's all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches.

In England, there are so many TV commercials with nudity in them, and there are so many TV programs that show nudity on a regular basis. It's becoming more of a norm.

I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.

You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.

In England, one without a trace of Royalty will master. Twenty months he will rule; twenty months he will bleed the lands, then his end comes quickly.

Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English history and rural life.

In England, I suppose I have been known to once or twice tune into 'Big Brother', which is a pretty terrible guilty pleasure.

I don't have any intentions to return to England. I would go back if I could return as a free person. I don't want to return to prison.

Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.

All people seem to want to talk about is the current Ashes series, and whether England are going to reverse the trend of recent series.

...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.

Boys, as far as England was concerned, were always the hard core. And you just know the guys like it. They want to be you. Some might be attracted to you without knowing it.

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, thats 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.

At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States

In my opinion, a war between England and Germany was a war between brothers. In my inner self I admired the English government and political system.

I come from a family of pacifists, so it's not like I was going to join the war. Sweden is not like the States or England where you might get sent to Afghanistan next month.