Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Jimmy Cannon

England produces the best fat actors.

Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget. / For we are the people of England, that never have spoken yet.

Joseph Hume

At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of our manufactures would be, that they would be entirely fed.

Benjamin Disraeli

I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.

Benjamin Disraeli

England does not love coalitions.

Benjamin Disraeli

We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.

Warren Gatland

An NPC preparation is a lot different to the Premiership. In England we had a squad of around 44 players and had over a month together before the championship started. This has been a lot different and more challenging in some ways, but I've enjoyed the change.

Are Poland better now than last year when England won? We were beaten, but we'll see tomorrow. We always try to play our best. We won't be sitting back. We'll play out of our skins to show we are a good team. We want to win the group.

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,

People say there is a lot of expectation on the England side but I can't speak for them. We are just concentrating on ourselves and doing our homework. I think we have been doing that pretty well and we can look forward to going there.

George Santayana

England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors

England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes

England have obviously gone a different route because they have a tremendous physical team. With Wales we couldn't do the same sort of thing so we reacted differently. I guess it was the input of so many foreign heads. They imported a sort of Super 12 philosophy.

Dasha Zhukova

England has a long history of supporting alternative medicine - maybe it's because they don't have such a strong pharmaceutical industry in England, and homeopathy has been taught and promoted there for hundreds of years.

Diego Forlan

England has a good team - much stronger than at previous World Cups.

Darren Gough

England had a look at Jimmy in the nets and that's why they called him up,

Ryan Giggs

England got the luck this time, but if we keep producing performances like that it'll come our way,

Mike Tindall

England expectations are always high, and should be so,

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Adam Gilchrist

England are doing to us what we've always done to other sides,

Ian Botham

England will still have to play out of their skins to win at The Oval.

Stephane Henchoz

England were very unlucky and they would have won if they had not missed the penalty,

Richard Jones

England need to help Gilchrist hit and hit himself OUT.

Schools in England need to spend time teaching what happened in Germany after 1945.

As it does so, it will be moving up toward Long Island and New England over the next 24 hours.

Jurgen Klinsmann

Didi will be staying in England for the next few weeks so find his rhythm with Liverpool,

Rupert Brooke

And think, this heart, all evil shed away, / A pulse in the eternal mind, no less / Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given.