England Quotes - Page 22

A triptych in which the presiding deities are Mother, England and Me.

Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low?

Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.

There are lots of beautiful areas in England, and I am lucky enough to live in a stunning part of a very beautiful area.

We are a nation that worships speed and power. And for good reason. Without power we would still be part of England and everybody would be out of work... Bicycles are too slow and impuissant for a nation like ours. They belong in Czechoslovakia.

Industrialization came to England but has since left.

They teach you how to handle life in England, but they don’t teach you a thing about death. There’s no book telling you what to do when your mum or dad dies.

We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone.

It's such a surprise for the Eastern eyes to see, That though the English are effete They're quite impervious to heat.

The American Revolution was a small part of a major world war going on between France and England, so the French intervened and that was a big factor, but the domestic contribution was basically guerrilla warfare.

There was very little international support, even England wouldn't support [bombing of Syria], which is amazing.

In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.

I love England - it's no secret.

By the early seventies I had become an Englishman - that is to say, I hated England just as much as half my compatriots seemed to do.

I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell. It was news to me that there had been talk, even in the First World War, of dropping Colorado beetles on German potato crops and that kind of thing.

I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor.

The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.

I think England has been in the long-term damaged by Britishness.

New England is quite as large a lump of earth as my heart can really take in.

I was born in Bradford, a city in the north of England that God forgot about. A place where most people never leave, but if they do, they certainly never go back.

But the English do not know what surprise is. No one ever turns his head to look at anyone else in the street.

The present Stimulus Bill sets up the equivalent commission in the United States similar to that which is in England.

My father had always been a traveling salesman - New England, the South, whatever.

The English have no exaulted sentiments. They can all be bought.

If you ask people in England where does Tom Wright sit on the theological spectrum, they say, "Well he's an evangelical of course," as though, come on, get used to it.