All Quotes

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