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Collection of quotes, quotations and aphorisms about England (Part 1) by the world of English blog and Carl William Brown.<\/span><\/p>\n

We are looking to get counties to play their young England players earlier, and the first reports from the counties are that it is working well. It also helps us to prepare in a better fashion.<\/span>
\nAndy Pick<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t envisage I will be captain again, but for two England managers, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, I was their first choice and I’m proud of that.<\/span>
\nJohn Terry<\/span><\/p>\n

I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that.<\/span>
\nWilliam Kidd<\/span><\/p>\n

American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England.<\/span>
\nJohn Amery<\/span><\/p>\n

I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life.<\/span>
\nDebra Messing<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.<\/span>
\nRandy Moss<\/span><\/p>\n

England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.<\/span>
\nMelina Mercouri<\/span><\/p>\n

I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the living room to listen to it on the radio – much to my parent’s disapproval.<\/span>
\nJeff Beck<\/span><\/p>\n

An important impression was my father’s one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.<\/span>
\nPhilip Warren Anderson<\/span><\/p>\n

When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, – but never England.<\/span>
\nGeorge Mikes<\/span><\/p>\n

I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.<\/span>
\nDinah Sheridan<\/span><\/p>\n

The situation in America is when it starts moving there, all the bands from England move over to America and work from there, so that they’re available all the time for everyone that wants them in person.<\/span>
\nBenny Anderson<\/span><\/p>\n

In a few years there will be only five kings in the world the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.<\/span>
\nKing Farouk<\/span><\/p>\n

If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.<\/span>
\nNathaniel Smith<\/span><\/p>\n

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.<\/span>
\nGeorge Mikes<\/span><\/p>\n

Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we’re from North England.<\/span>
\nTony Scott<\/span><\/p>\n

England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!<\/span>
\nMiranda Otto<\/span><\/p>\n

I remember my second game for England – we lost 2-0 to Norway, I was subbed and didn’t do myself justice and I thought that was the end of my England career.<\/span>
\nTeddy Sheringham<\/span><\/p>\n

I played for 30 years, 20 with England and I did it by setting goals.<\/span>
\nPeter Shilton<\/span><\/p>\n

The New England Patriots have always been a special organization and I’ve always watched from afar.<\/span>
\nRandy Moss<\/span><\/p>\n

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.<\/span>
\nStephen Gardiner<\/span><\/p>\n

When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland.<\/span>
\nTerri Windling<\/span><\/p>\n

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.<\/span>
\nE. F. Schumacher<\/span><\/p>\n

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.<\/span>
\nHoward Nemerov<\/span><\/p>\n

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England’s back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.<\/span>
\nAgnes Smedley<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve had two or three injuries when with England and it’s been a bit bizarre.<\/span>
\nJamie Redknapp<\/span><\/p>\n

The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border.<\/span>
\nGoldwin Smith<\/span><\/p>\n

At the moment there are some England players who are the stars of their club teams, but not for their country. It’s difficult to explain.<\/span>
\nDiego Maradona<\/span><\/p>\n

I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn’t speak the language. I was very isolated.<\/span>
\nJean Alesi<\/span><\/p>\n

Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.<\/span>
\nCaleb Cushing<\/span><\/p>\n

What you have is two men seeking the White House; they’re both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university.<\/span>
\nMark Shields<\/span><\/p>\n

I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had I seen nothing else in England but this, I should have thought my journey thither amply rewarded.<\/span>
\nKarl Philipp Moritz<\/span><\/p>\n

And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I’m hoping there is. If that doesn’t happen I will be disappointed.<\/span>
\nDavid Thewlis<\/span><\/p>\n

I really wouldn’t want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.<\/span>
\nJonny Lee Miller<\/span><\/p>\n

People like Howlin’ Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart – all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there’s a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.<\/span>
\nP. J. Harvey<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve been working at performing for five years now. I’ve been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it’s also the only way to get to know what music is all about.<\/span>
\nAndy Gibb<\/span><\/p>\n

I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less.<\/span>
\nDiane Cilento<\/span><\/p>\n

I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.<\/span>
\nClaire Forlani<\/span><\/p>\n

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.<\/span>
\nPeter Shaffer<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.<\/span>
\nGeorge Takei<\/span><\/p>\n

I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler.<\/span>
\nJeremy Bulloch<\/span><\/p>\n

It will be quite satisfactory if you open them gradually, as the circumstances may require; but the President assures you that this will not be the case if you make a treaty with England first.<\/span>
\nTownsend Harris<\/span><\/p>\n

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, that’s 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.<\/span>
\nKazuo Ishiguro<\/span><\/p>\n

Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed – I’m talking about England, incidentally.<\/span>
\nPatrick Macnee<\/span><\/p>\n

My life is really so much based in England.<\/span>
\nJamie Oliver<\/span><\/p>\n

Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn’t write my name or hold my hand up.<\/span>
\nJohnny Winter<\/span><\/p>\n

Beckham is a nice man and I’m sure he will reach 100 appearances for England. But he is just a good player, nothing more.<\/span>
\nDiego Maradona<\/span><\/p>\n

The academy awards in England; it’s a classy affair as well.<\/span>
\nBrenda Blethyn<\/span><\/p>\n

He told me I didn’t understand, that we were from the bleak industrial wastes of North England, or something, and that we didn’t understand the Internet. I told him Fall fans invented the Internet. They were on there in 1982.<\/span>
\nMark E. Smith<\/span><\/p>\n

I have no intention of letting this decision change the way that I approach my training and preparation for games, but the time has come for me to realise that I have gone as far as I can go with this England team.<\/span>
\nJonny Wilkinson<\/span><\/p>\n

It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.<\/span>
\nAlice Hamilton<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don’t count my student years.<\/span>
\nTerri Windling<\/span><\/p>\n

We have seen… that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources.<\/span>
\nJosiah Strong<\/span><\/p>\n

I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.<\/span>
\nPeter Shaffer<\/span><\/p>\n

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I’m trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.<\/span>
\nRick Moody<\/span><\/p>\n

If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.<\/span>
\nPaul Harris<\/span><\/p>\n

In England, you’re allowed to have an opinion – as long as it comes out of your mouth.<\/span>
\nJamie Oliver<\/span><\/p>\n

We… our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children.<\/span>
\nPeter Shaffer<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don’t know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.<\/span>
\nRandy Harrison<\/span><\/p>\n

There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.<\/span>
\nGoldwin Smith<\/span><\/p>\n

If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three.<\/span>
\nTownsend Harris<\/span><\/p>\n

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.<\/span>
\nAlbert Bushnell Hart<\/span><\/p>\n

I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and that’s what my dad was into.<\/span>
\nSlash<\/span><\/p>\n

I kept an interested eye on the transfer window in England, which opened and closed last month, and the lack of frantic activity just goes to show the current financial state of the game right now.<\/span>
\nDavid Ginola<\/span><\/p>\n

There’s like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It’s nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice.<\/span>
\nCharlie Haden<\/span><\/p>\n

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.<\/span>
\nPatrick J. Kennedy<\/span><\/p>\n

And um, when I came back to England I put a very complex soundtrack on it, featuring everyone from Jimi Hendrix, right through to Neil Diamond, you know, everybody that was kind of popular who was kind of popular at that time.<\/span>
\nGerald Scarfe<\/span><\/p>\n

If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.<\/span>
\nTownsend Harris<\/span><\/p>\n

In terms of soccer, it wasn’t really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It’s to each their own, really.<\/span>
\nParminder Nagra<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they’re exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They’re letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen – they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair.<\/span>
\nEvan Thomas<\/span><\/p>\n

An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props – and actors love props – is a cigarette. There’s so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It’s just the greatest – ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I’ve been playing around with cigarettes.<\/span>
\nMelissa Leo<\/span><\/p>\n

And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.<\/span>
\nMartha Gellhorn<\/span><\/p>\n

If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world.<\/span>
\nEdward Grey<\/span><\/p>\n

If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.<\/span>
\nTownsend Harris<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s nice because working in England I’m know for working in television and theater when you get a chance to come out, it is quite fun to be out from behind the mask. You need to let people know who you are.<\/span>
\nJeremy Bulloch<\/span><\/p>\n

The Full Monty, ah, it’s superb. The Full Monty showed how life really is in certain cities of England.<\/span>
\nMark Roberts<\/span><\/p>\n

It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.<\/span>
\nJohn Amery<\/span><\/p>\n

Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.<\/span>
\nRoger Bannister<\/span><\/p>\n

I went to England in the ’70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn’t regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.<\/span>
\nGeoffrey Rush<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite Japan’s desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree.<\/span>
\nHideki Tojo<\/span><\/p>\n

I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn’t. I found a little independent and we’ve got all these great reviews in England and now it has gone gold.<\/span>
\nAlison Moyet<\/span><\/p>\n

Playing for England was one long roller-coaster: some ups and downs, but also quite a few moments when you’re not really sure if you’re enjoying the ride.<\/span>
\nGary Neville<\/span><\/p>\n

I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test.<\/span>
\nIan Botham<\/span><\/p>\n

At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of our manufactures would be, that they would be entirely fed.<\/span>
\nJoseph Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

It is too maddening. I’ve got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I’ll have to speak three times, and then I’ll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?<\/span>
\nJohn Masefield<\/span><\/p>\n

In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.<\/span>
\nMary Garden<\/span><\/p>\n

To make this announcement fills me with great sadness, but I know I have been blessed in so many ways to have experienced what I have with the England rugby team.<\/span>
\nJonny Wilkinson<\/span><\/p>\n

Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.<\/span>
\nTracy Kidder<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s such a performance to bring stuff into America. It’s a great luxury when I am in England.<\/span>
\nTerence Stamp<\/span><\/p>\n

The weather in England can really darken your spirits.<\/span>
\nClaire Forlani<\/span><\/p>\n

I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.<\/span>
\nCharles Keating<\/span><\/p>\n

I know there’s some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.<\/span>
\nLoretta Lynn<\/span><\/p>\n

The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.<\/span>
\nJay Leno<\/span><\/p>\n

When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.<\/span>
\nCharles Lyell<\/span><\/p>\n

Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.<\/span>
\nCharles Churchill<\/span><\/p>\n

When I came to England at the very beginning of commercial television it was easy for me because I was only doing one or two shows a week at most. It was really a holiday.<\/span>
\nRichard Lester<\/span><\/p>\n

I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England.<\/span>
\nWilliam John Wills<\/span><\/p>\n

You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can’t say I’m very impressed with the food in America. it’s all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches.<\/span>
\nAnne Dudley<\/span><\/p>\n

Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.<\/span>
\nJohn Pople<\/span><\/p>\n

The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated.<\/span>
\nBernhard von Bulow<\/span><\/p>\n

I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he’s from England.<\/span>
\nJohn Corigliano<\/span><\/p>\n

I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn’t read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.<\/span>
\nPeter Porter<\/span><\/p>\n

The one major disappointment I have is that I didn’t get a hundred against India in India. I got lots of runs against India in England including a double hundred I am very proud of.<\/span>
\nDavid Gower<\/span><\/p>\n

I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don’t really have those in England yet.<\/span>
\nRoger Andrew Taylor<\/span><\/p>\n

In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war.<\/span>
\nPierre Laval<\/span><\/p>\n

Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.<\/span>
\nThomas Francis Meagher<\/span><\/p>\n

There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford.<\/span>
\nSydney Brenner<\/span><\/p>\n

It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control.<\/span>
\nHenry Charles Carey<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there.<\/span>
\nSeth Lloyd<\/span><\/p>\n

In England, it’s a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it’s much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.<\/span>
\nAlex Ferguson<\/span><\/p>\n

You can also read:<\/span><\/p>\n

Quotes and aphorisms on England (Part 2)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Quotes by authors<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Quotes by arguments<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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