Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shoaib Akhtar

I don't want to miss the England tour, and hope that I make it after healing the injuries.

I congratulate Iain in returning to the starting line up this week. He is playing well for Tykes and put in an impressive performance for England A.

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.

Elton John

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

Mahela Jayawardene

Chaminda (Vaas) is going to be very important for the England tour (in May) and we don't want to take any risks with him so he'll only play if he's 100 percent fit for the match.

Michael Dawson

He told me he was going to rest me, that I'd played two internationals for England and he wanted a fresh team.

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.

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.

Hirohito

I discovered freedom for the first time in England.

Hermione Gingold

What Americans call cross-ventilation, the English call draughts.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

England is never in a hurry because she is eternal.

Henry James

Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.

Michael Clarke

There's a lot of good things about England, but I don't want to tell you too many of them.

Malcolm Muggeridge

The monarchical institution in England is immensely valuable.

Jimmy Cannon

England produces the best fat actors.

Rudyard Kipling

The coastwise lights of England watch the ships of England go!

Mick Jagger

In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.

John Oliver

Politicians don't really bring up religion in England.

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.

Joan Bennett

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

John Mayall

Everybody I know in England was raised on Mose Allison.

John Lydon

I could take on England, but I couldn't take on one heroin user.

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.

Hans Zimmer

When I was 13, when I was 14, when I was in England, yeah all I wanted to do was go and see The Who, go and see The Stones.

Matthew Arnold

However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.

Julia Child

My, I get so depressed after a poor meal; that's why I can never stay in England for more than a week.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Kazuo Ishiguro

I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me, it is like a mythical place.

Mark Lawrenson

England are numerically outnumbered in the midfield.

John Burns

The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Europe.

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

Julie Burchill

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