England Quotes - Page 9

God has given him an attitude that he can deal with anything football throws at him. (on Michael Owen)

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.

England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'.

I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.

I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.

I'm afraid I haven't become a born-again Christian. I'm sort of 'Church of England, lapsed' is about as far as I go.

Me? As England's answer to Jonah Lomu? Joanna Lumley, more likely.

England are learning to walk before they can run with their feet nailed firmly to the ground.

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

Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England.

In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.

Y'all are so cute and y'all talk so proper over here. I love England.

When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God.

The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution , there were no limits (save for the effect of trail by jury) to what the legislature might do.

The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world.

Poland nil, England nil, though England are now looking the better value for their nil.

I'm really glad that Italy went out, they were playing boring football. (on Euro 2004)

The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.

In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.

A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how little he alludes to his own; ... This abnegation of his own opinion, and this implicit deference to the opinion of his forefathers, which are common to the English and American lawyer, this servitude of thought which he is obliged to profess, necessarily give him more timid habits and more conservative inclinations in England and America than in France.

By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.

Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose.

That's football, Mike, Northern Ireland have had several chances and haven't scored but England have had no chances and scored twice.

The show I did in England catered to a broad range of people. I like that. I don't want nouveau cult status, though I know we've got that sort of audience in the states.