Quotes and Sayings About England
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Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.
-- A. P. Herbert -
A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
-- Ada Leverson -
Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.
-- Agatha Christie -
English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
-- Agnes Repplier -
The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
-- Agnes Repplier -
When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.
-- Alan Rickman -
England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.
-- Alan Rickman -
No money in the world can buy a white England shirt.
-- Alan Shearer -
I still get butterflies when England are playing.
-- Alan Shearer -
There is a lot of luck in football. Following England is like following Wycombe Wanders or Leyton Orient. You hope for the best and hope you are lucky.
-- Alan Sugar -
By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.
-- Alex Garland -
In England, 'Doctor Who' has always been considered a children's show, at least by children.
-- Alex Kingston -
Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!
-- Alexander Smith -
It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.
-- Alfred Douglas -
People tell me that I am well-grounded. I am sane in the New England sense of the word.
-- Ali MacGraw -
In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.
-- Alice Duer Miller -
It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.
-- Alice Hamilton -
I loved living in Hollywood - and the weather there was just fantastic - but there is something about rural England, and especially Suffolk and Norfolk, that pulls at my heartstrings.
-- Amanda Donohoe -
PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.
-- Andrew Eldritch -
I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.
-- Andrew Eldritch -
I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!
-- Andrew Solomon -
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.
-- Andrew Wiles -
I was a star in England, but Ive never been a star in America. Now I am.
-- Anna Lee -
I've always felt that English women had to be approached in a sisterly manner, rather than an erotic manner.
-- Anthony Burgess -
My life changed incredibly when I moved from Holland to England.
-- Anton Corbijn -
If they had offered me James Bond, I probably couldn't have gone to England anymore in my life. James Bond with an accent? That would have been something.
-- Antonio Banderas -
Nowhere in the world do supporters love their clubs more than in England. England is paradise to play in.
-- Arjen Robben
