England Quotes

“Think of what our Nation stands for, Books from Boots' and country lanes, Free speech, free passes, class distinction, Democracy and proper drains.”

“One of my ambitions is to walk into a pub in Margate and buy a pint of bitter.”

“The English can't stand a cockney accent, but they love a cockney character.”

“The Bible was the single most powerful formative influence on the minds of Englishmen.”

“The music of the English countryside is not to be slighted, but it is not easily shared.”

“The Englishman's virtue is his stolidity, his inability to be flustered. His vice is his stolidity, his inability to be enthused.”

“The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.”

“Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?”

“Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.”

“England is the only country in the world where the food is more dangerous than the sex.”

“A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam.”

“We need a new settlement for England which commands the consent of people in all parts of England.”

“Of all the nations in the world, the English are the most proud and arrogant.”

“God! I will pack, and take a train, And get me to England once again! For England's the one land, I know, Where men with Splendid Hearts may go.”

“It is the custom of the English to be very joyous on the occasion of a victory.”

“The English disease, we are told, is a tendency to nostalgia, to look back to a golden age that never was.”

“At last England have appointed a manager who speaks English better than the players.”

“For too long, the 'English question' in British politics has been ignored.”

“English as tuppence, changing yet changeless as canal water, nestling in green nowhere.”

“The English landscape is a work of art, perhaps the greatest work of art in the country.”