England Quotes

We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.

The solo years have been more meaningful to the audiences than the Smiths years, but the press in England only write about me in relation to the Smiths era.

I love England but everything that has happened makes me realise that I would be better off in the States.

You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there.

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.

It would be better that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober.

I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables.

But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.

Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.

I don't envisage I will be captain again, but for two England managers, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, I was their first choice and I'm proud of that.

I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.

I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd been going to there. The last one was taught by monks, and I couldn't wait to get out.

I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

I love scoring goals for England and playing for England. That's one of the reasons I didn't retire - I love playing for my country.

England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.

I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry and he's got Mad Power Disease.

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.

I've done a lot of period stuff but that's mostly because, in England, we get off on a lot of period stuff, but it's not any kind of particular choice. That's where a lot of the work is.

To make this announcement fills me with great sadness, but I know I have been blessed in so many ways to have experienced what I have with the England rugby team.

In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.

If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.

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

To wake up in England and have the newspaper on your front door with a headline that says, 'Ozzie's Beach Whale of a Daughter,' doesn't really do much for your self-esteem at all.

They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

As regards this country, in which protection has always to some extent existed, it is the best customer that England ever had, and our demands upon her grow most steadily and regularly under protection.