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England and the U. K. QuotesFamous England and the U. K. quotes by popular authors such as Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, Benjamin Disraeli, Voltaire, James Thomson and others.
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[highlight-text]England is a nation of voyeurs.
Nigel Newton
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[highlight-text]Snobbery - the 'pox Britannica'
Anthony Sampson
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[highlight-text]London is a roost for every bird.
Benjamin Disraeli
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[highlight-text]We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.
Benjamin Disraeli
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[highlight-text]The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.
Lord Rosebery
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[highlight-text]Oh to be in England Now that April's there.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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[highlight-text]Britain's best bulwarks are her wooden walls.
T. Augustine Arne
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[highlight-text]A Scotch mist may wet an Englishman to the skin.
English Proverb
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[highlight-text]The English never draw a line without blurring it.
Winston Churchill
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[highlight-text]Not only England but every Englishman is an island.
Novalis
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[highlight-text]His Majesty's dominions on which the sun never sets.
Christopher North
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[highlight-text]England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.
Voltaire
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[highlight-text]The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli
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[highlight-text]Though I love my country I do not love my countrymen.
Lord Byron
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[highlight-text]I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.
Winston Churchill
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[highlight-text]I regard England as my wife and America as my mistress.
Cedric Hardwicke
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[highlight-text]What should they know of England who only England know?
Rudyard Kipling
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[highlight-text]The British love permanence more than they love beauty.
Hugh Casson
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[highlight-text]Froth at the top dregs at bottom but the middle excellent.
Voltaire
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[highlight-text]Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.
V. S. Pritchett
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[highlight-text]The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly.
Frank Field
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[highlight-text]Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.
Dean Acheson
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[highlight-text]An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]The English woman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.
Stevie Smith
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[highlight-text]Oh it's a snug little island! A right little tight little island!
Thomas Dibdin
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[highlight-text]In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce.
Marquis Caraccioli
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[highlight-text]Be England what she will With all her faults she is my country still.
Charles Churchill
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[highlight-text]England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]Rule Britannia Britannia rule the waves; Britains never will be slaves.
James Thomson
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[highlight-text]The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
Alexander Woollcott
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[highlight-text]Nothing unites the English like war. Nothing divides them like Picasso.
Hugh Mills
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[highlight-text]The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for 5 days.
Clement R. Attlee
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[highlight-text]Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston Churchill
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[highlight-text]The Englishman respects your opinions but he never thinks of your feelings.
Wilfrid Laurier
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[highlight-text]I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]The English may not like music but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
Thomas Beecham
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[highlight-text]Without class differences England would cease to be the living theatre it is.
Anthony Burgess
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[highlight-text]The Englishman has all the qualities of a poker except its occasional warmth.
Daniel O'Connell
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[highlight-text]The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
James Agate
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[highlight-text]George III ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.
Edmund C. Bentley
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[highlight-text]What have I done for you England my England? What is there I would not do England my own?
William Ernest Henley
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[highlight-text]That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps.
Frank Adcock
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[highlight-text]England is the paradise of individuality eccentricity heresy anomalies hobbies and humours.
George Santayana
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[highlight-text]Remember that you are an Englishman and consequently have won first prize in the lottery of life.
Cecil Rhodes
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[highlight-text]It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
Charles Lamb
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[highlight-text]If I should die think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England.
Rupert Brooke
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[highlight-text]fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]Socialism has been preached for so long the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.
Lord Thomson of Fleet
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[highlight-text]There will always be an England While there's a country lane Wherever there's a cottage small Beside a field of grain.
Clark Ross Parker
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[highlight-text]One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humour.
Marshall McLuhan
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[highlight-text]The British are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.
Stephen Leacock
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[highlight-text]The British are just as keen to make money as the Americans but they prefer hypocrisy to a blatantly commercial attitude.
Wendy Michener
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[highlight-text]In England I would rather be a man a horse a dog or a woman in that order. In America I think the order would be reversed.
Bruce Gould
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[highlight-text]Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears prejudices misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.
David Lloyd George
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[highlight-text]I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
Clement R. Attlee
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[highlight-text]God save our Gracious King Long live our Noble King God save the King. Send Him victorious Happy and Glorious Long to rule over us God save the King.
Henry Carey
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[highlight-text]No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British which amazes Americans who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.
Paul Gallico
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[highlight-text]The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
Truman Capote
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[highlight-text]In the end it may well be that Britain will be more honoured by the historians for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.
David Ormsby Gore
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[highlight-text]The nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Nature's gifts to her English children ... we have all of us yielded to infatuation at some moment of our lives.
Matthew Arnold
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[highlight-text]For he might have been a Rooshian A French or Turk or Proosian Or perhaps Italian. But in spite of all temptations To belong to other nations He remains an Englishman.
W. S. Gilbert
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[highlight-text]Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.
Margaret Halsey
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[highlight-text]Land of hope and glory Mother of the Free How shall we extol thee who are borne of thee? Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set; God who made thee mighty make thee mightier yet.
Arthur Christopher Benson
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[highlight-text]The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: The one thinks everything right that is French the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.
William Hazlitt
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[highlight-text]We are articulate but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence. But after the silence he sometimes says something.
Robert Morley
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[highlight-text]Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say: 'This was their finest hour.'
Winston Churchill
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[highlight-text]When Britain first at Heaven's command Arose from out the azure main This was the charter of the land And Guardian angels sung this strain; 'Rule Britannia! rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.'
James Thomson
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[highlight-text]It seems to me that you can go sauntering along for a certain period telling the English some interesting things about themselves and then all at once it feels as if you had stepped on the prongs of a rake.
Patrick Campbell
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[highlight-text]You must not miss Whitehall. At one end you'll find a statue of one of our kings who was beheaded; at the other the monument to the man who did it. This is just an example of our attempts to be fair to everybody.
Thomas Appleton
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[highlight-text]Where there is one Englishman there is a garden. Where there are two Englishmen there will be a club. But this does not mean any falling off in the number of gardens. There will be three. The club will have one too.
A. W. Smith
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[highlight-text]The Lord Chief Justice of England recently said that the greater part of his judicial time was spent investigating collisions between propelled vehicles each on its own side of the road each sounding its horn and each stationary.
Philip Guedalla
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[highlight-text]The young Cambridge group the group that stood for 'freedom' and flannel trousers and flannel shirts open at the neck and a well-bred sort of emotional anarchy and a whispering murmuring sort of voice and an ultra-sensitive sort of manner.
David Herbert Lawrence
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[highlight-text]The royal throne of kings this scepter'd isle This earth of majesty this seat of Mars This other Eden demi-paradise This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war; This happy breed of men this little world This precious stone set in the silver sea.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]Deploring change is the unchangeable habit of all Englishmen. If you find any important figures who really like change such as Bernard Shaw Keir Hardie Lloyd George Selfridge or Disraeli you will find that they are not really English at all but Irish Scotch Welsh American or Jewish. Englishmen make changes sometimes great changes. But secretly or openly they always deplore them.
Raymond Postgate