Famous Quotes & Sayings

Homer

Pffft, English. Who needs that? I'm never going to England.

If I want to get back into England side I've got to get some wickets and prove my fitness and hopefully that's what I'm going to do this week and next week.

If England, Ireland and Wales want it we would not stand in their way,

David Gill

As a Premier League club, we want a successful England team and the competitions they play in increase football's popularity around the world,

Francis Parkman

Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte.

It's happening in England, it's happening in Sweden.

It's great. Twickenham and England is probably the toughest proposition you can get in the Six Nations and we are one game away from the championship.

Elton John

If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.

Ian Chappell

The other advantage England have got when Phil Tufnell is bowling is that he isn't fielding

I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any editing or revisions.

I do not intend, we do not intend, that any party shall survive, if we can help it, that will lay the confiscating hand upon Americans in the interest of England or of Europe.

Jeremy Thomas

I'm not a Little Englander. Historically, British people have always been travellers. I look in the world as one place. You have to think in a global sense. Cinema is a global endeavour. My roots are in England but my endeavours are worldwide.

Julie Burchill

It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.

Steve Kanaly

I have English family in Northhampton and have been to England numerous times.

Steve Coppell

Referees don't come down here with a particular flavoured shirt on.

Stephen Gardiner

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.

George Bernard Shaw

The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.

Quentin Crisp

I became one of the stately homos of England.

Quentin Crisp

The distinction between indoors and outdoors, which in England is usually so marked, was temporarily suspended in a hot gauzy haze.

Terry Butcher

We [England] have become all Billy Big Time and become too big for our boots, and yet we have got nothing to shout about

Joseph Addison

We have in England a particular bashfulness in every thing that regards religion.

Jonny Wilkinson

I'm very happy to be back playing rugby for England again - there were times when I questioned if this would happen.

Joan Bennett

If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine.

The men that worked for England / They have their graves at home.

John Oliver

Politicians don't really bring up religion in England.

Jimmy Cannon

England produces the best fat actors.

John Corigliano

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.

John Deacon

There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.

Martin Amis

When policemen go to prison in England, they have as bad a time as a pedophile.

Simon Newcomb

Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.

Rio Ferdinand

He has always been a slippery little git! (on Joe Cole)

Rio Ferdinand

I didn't expect to be dropped by England

Thurston Moore

I grew up in the early '70s in New England.