~ England and the U. K. Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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