ENGLISH QUOTES

Some words on England.

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This 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 a silver sea,

Which serves it in the office of a wall,

Or as a moat defensive to a house,

Against the envy of less happier lands,

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

William Shakespeare, Richard II Act 2 Scene 1 lines 40-50

Those comfortable padded lunatic asylums which are known as the stately homes of England.

Virginia Woolf

We were not fairly beaten, my lord. No Englishman is ever fairly beaten.

George Bernard Shaw

I've discovered that what we in England call drafts, you in America call cross-ventilation.

Hermione Gingold

Where there is one Englishman, there will be 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. The club will have one too.

A. W. Smith

The maxim of the British people is 'Business as usual'.

Winston Churchill

England has civilization but no culture.

Robin Matthews

Oh to be in England,

Now that April's here.

Robert Browning

In England I would rather be a man, a horse, a dog or a woman. In America I think the order would be reversed.

Bruce Gould

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