England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie
England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.
‐‐ Alan Rickman
England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal dust and smoke, from the grit stirred up every day by the jackhammers still clearing out rubble from the Blitz.
‐‐ Alexander Cockburn
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.
‐‐ John Cleese
England is a memory now. The gates are flooded and anybody can have access to England and join in.
‐‐ Morrissey
England is a nation of shopkeepers.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte
England is a profoundly bizarre place that has produced thousands of bands the world has worshipped.
‐‐ Gene Simmons
England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'.
‐‐ Emo Philips
England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
‐‐ John Burroughs
England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly.
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe
England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.
‐‐ Cedric Hardwicke
England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
‐‐ John Burroughs
England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.
‐‐ Leon Trotsky
England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.
‐‐ Daniel Day-Lewis
England is one of my favorite places. The fans are just so crazy.
‐‐ Britney Spears
England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.
‐‐ Kevin Ayers
England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.
‐‐ Stephen Daldry
England is the country where I learned my profession. They are the ones that trained me, they are the ones that believed in me.
‐‐ Mario Testino
England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.
‐‐ John Florio
England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!
‐‐ Miranda Otto
England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up for my disinheritance by absorbing the world of others... I loved them: George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens... I adopted them passionately.
‐‐ Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel.
‐‐ George A. Moore
England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha!
‐‐ Xavi
England understands good Chinese, Japanese and Indian cuisine; in France, we just get French.
‐‐ Eva Green
England used to be known for making beautiful things. Then we became the rag trade, known for our street fashions, which were picked up around the world. I want us to be recognized for quality. We have the hands to make the clothes. What we need is the motivation.
‐‐ Anouska Hempel
England was a delightful and stimulating place for a young academic, although by present standards, the laboratory facilities were primitive. There were almost no research grants and no secretarial assistance, even for Sherrington.
‐‐ John Eccles
England was always very special. It was so important because the reason Benny and I started writing was the Beatles. During the Sixties, England was everything. To be number one in England was more important than being number one in America because England set the tone.
‐‐ Bjorn Ulvaeus
England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.
‐‐ Bill Bryson
England was incredibly dull and everything exciting seemed to be in America.
‐‐ Gerald Scarfe
England will be home for me. It always has been and always will be.
‐‐ Jamie Campbell Bower
English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
‐‐ Zadie Smith
English banjo players really were a law unto themselves - you don't find that kind of brisk banjo playing on the original Louis Armstrong or Bix Beiderbecke records.
‐‐ Pete Townshend
English businesses would face massive transaction costs if Scotland, their second biggest export market, used a different currency.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon
English churchmen have long gazed with love on the primitive church as the ideal of Christian perfection, the Eden wherein the first fathers of their faith walked blameless before God and passionless towards each other.
‐‐ Sabine Baring-Gould
English country life is more like Chekhov than 'The Archers' or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.
‐‐ Jane Gardam
English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.
‐‐ Germaine Greer
English culture is highly literary-based.
‐‐ Peter Greenaway
English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary.
‐‐ Bernardo Bertolucci
English dialogues are always just what you need and nothing more - like something out of Hemingway. In Italian and in French, dialogues are always theatrical, literary. You can do more with it.
‐‐ Bernardo Bertolucci
English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.
‐‐ Lytton Strachey
English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.
‐‐ Zadie Smith
English food writer Elizabeth David, cook and author Richard Olney and the owner of Domaine Tempier Lulu Peyraud have all really inspired the way I think about food.
‐‐ Alice Waters
English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how managers cope with the squads they have until it re-opens.
‐‐ David Ginola
English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant.
‐‐ Kevin Keegan
English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
‐‐ Yaya Toure
English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.
‐‐ Mary Augusta Ward
English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.
‐‐ Rabih Alameddine
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.
‐‐ David Crystal
English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
‐‐ Malcolm Bradbury