England quotes

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, ‚If wet, in the library.‘ Who could say that this is bad?

The wind can be quite extreme in England. We are not familiar with that in Germany, and you have to keep things simple.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.

In England, you have stadiums in the middle of the city.

England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

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

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

Radio in England is nonexistent. It’s very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.

All Scouts should know about St. George. St. George is the Patron Saint of England; he is also the Patron Saint of cavalry in all countries, and therefore Patron Saint of Scouts.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

I have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from ‚the bush‘ could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.

As a teenager, I went to Bali a lot, but it’s a long, long way from England. Which is why, when we bought Necker Island, we made it like a mini Bali.

Here in England, everyone’s a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It’s fine to be a pop star. ‚Oh, it’s great, lots of fun, aren’t they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!‘

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

One reason I don’t want to play in England again is because we don’t have any personalities.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.