England Quotes

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.

When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England.

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.

As London is suddenly promoted as a super-wealth brand, the England outside London shivers beneath cutbacks, tight circumstances and economic disasters.

He was not only a bore; he bored for England.

My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England.

It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.

I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Government receive any severe and irreparable check, will not the resources of England be called upon to meet the emergency, and to supply the deficiency?

After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

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.

In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

In England, you're allowed to have an opinion - as long as it comes out of your mouth.

And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.

I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.

Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.

The law reports in newspapers contain perhaps the only real history of England that has any relation to truth.

But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.

I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again.

We'd played for years to half-empty clubs in England.

Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.

So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.

My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.

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.

I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Scotland is free!

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.