Old England Quotes:

Old England is our home, and Englishmen are we; Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag in every sea.

- Mary Howitt

source: "Old England is our Home". Poem by Mary Howitt; later quoted in John Bartlett "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

topic: Home, Sea, Flags, Old England

Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot... But what of the man? I know his name was Guy Fawkes and I know, in 1605, he attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament.

- Alan Moore

source: "Fictional character: Evey Hammond". "V for Vendetta", www.imdb.com. 2005.

topic: Kings, Dark, Blow, Old England, Fawkes

Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.

- Rudyard Kipling

topic: Tree, Poetry, Sun, Old England

When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England's roast beef.

- Henry Fielding

source: 'The Grub Street Opera' (1731) act 3, sc. 3

topic: Heart, Blood, Brave, Old England, Courtiers

But the time will come when New England will be as thickly peopled as old England. Wages will be as low, and will fluctuate as much with you as with us. You will have your Manchesters and Birminghams; and, in those Manchesters and Birminghams, hundreds of thousands of artisans will assuredly be sometimes out of work. Then your institutions will be fairly brought to the test.

- Thomas B. Macaulay

source: "The Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay" by Thomas Pinney, vol. 6, p. 95", 1981.

topic: Wages, Tests, England, Old England