England Quotes - Page 5

It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.

The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.

You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.

I've got my own targets... To establish myself in the team and once you are a regular for Liverpool then England, recognition comes from that and hopefully this will prove the case.

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine.

I am not qualified to be a Dame. To be Dame you have to represent England in a way that I don't.

It's to remind our lads who they're playing for, and to remind the opposition who they're playing against. (on the 'This Anfield' plaque)

The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.

I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.

I come from a generation in England that considered making money or trying to promote yourself to be morally suspect.

If England was what England seems, An not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an' paint, 'Ow quick we'd chuck 'er! But she ain't!

Before, I said that they were maybe the best supporters in England. Now maybe they are the best supporters in Europe.

I begin to suspect that England is the most melancholy country in the world.

He's fantastic on the ground but obviously he is very tall. (on Peter Crouch)

The Who, England's most self-conscious band, have released 'Quadrophenia,' which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility.

England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.

I'm a hard-mouthed north-eastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England.

The last positive thing England did for cricket was to invent it.

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

I am already bound unto an husband, which is the kingdom of England.

Much suspected by me, Nothing proved can be

Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.

When I moved to Paris in the '70s, there wasn't very much going on in film in England. So when I started doing French films, there was a natural movement toward the kind of films I wanted to do. It wasn't the reason I came, but it so happened that I stepped into a time and place that actually corresponded to what I wanted. That sometimes happens in life. And it was rather beautiful.

The British are so incestuous. They pass around partners like they're passing popcorn at a movie.