England Quotes - Page 21

• My life is dedicated to the discovery of God, the advancement of science, and the pre-eminence of England.

  Kedar Joshi

  Determination, Discovery, Advancement

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• Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Love, Tragedy, Germany

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• England...the greatest and the most glorious and beautiful land on earth.

  Kedar Joshi

  Beauty, Beautiful, Land

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• England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land is a limited quantity, and the land that will grow wheat is absolutely dependent on difficult and capricious natural phenomena... I hope to point a way out of the colossal dilemma. It is the chemist who must come to the rescue of the threatened communities. It is through the laboratory that starvation may ultimately be turned into plenty... The fixation of atmospheric nitrogen is one of the great discoveries, awaiting the genius of chemists.

  William Crookes

  Food, Science, Discovery

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• When I moved to Paris in the '70s, there wasn't very much going on in film in England. So when I started doing French films, there was a natural movement toward the kind of films I wanted to do. It wasn't the reason I came, but it so happened that I stepped into a time and place that actually corresponded to what I wanted. That sometimes happens in life. And it was rather beautiful.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Beautiful, Paris, Movement

  Interview with Zoë Wolff, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2014.

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• I think it might be better to have the President sort of like the King of England - or the Queen - and have the real business of the presidency conducted by ... a city manager-type, a Prime Minister, somebody who's directly answerable to Congress, rather than a person who moves all his friends into the White House and does whatever he wants for four years.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Queens, Kings, Real

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I am not qualified to be a Dame. To be Dame you have to represent England in a way that I don't.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Dames, Way, Qualified

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I got the O.B.E because I represent England outside of England more...but thinking of me as an actor, I haven't done all the classical theatre, all the great roles. Think of Helen Mirren and me. Helen, who I adore, is a friend - should be Dame. I am the rebel, the revolutionary on the side.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Thinking, Theatre, Roles

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Many things have changed in our culture here in England as a direct result of the Pistols: the whole street-fashion thing in London, for example, or the coverage of popular culture in the national press, or the fact that the film industry is now about young people making films about young British issues.

  Julien Temple

  Fashion, Issues, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sports, Two, Two Things

  Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.13, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world.

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

  Powerful, England And America, Race

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• PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Gentleman, Church, Palaces

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.171, 谷月社

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• We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone.

  Oscar Wilde

  Able, Insult, Influence

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1053, Wordsworth Editions

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• I left England when I was four because I found out I could never be King.

  Bob Hope

  Kings, Four, Found

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• In New York and New England the sap starts up in the sugar maple the very day the bluebird arrives, and sugar-making begins forthwith. The bird is generally a mere disembodied voice; a rumor in the air for two or three days before it takes visible shape before you.

  John Burroughs

  New York, Air, Two

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.49, Syracuse University Press

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• England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.

  Walter Scott

  Christmas, Sports, Xmas

  Sir Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works”, p.112

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• Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.

  Tom Stoppard

  Goalkeepers, Today, Said

  1977 Professional Foul. See Napoleon 607:68.

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• Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.

  William Cowper

  Rome, Names, Sound

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.469

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• Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.

  William Cowper

  Country, Fall, Air

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 2 'The Timepiece' l. 40.

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• When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England's roast beef.

  Henry Fielding

  Heart, Blood, Brave

  'The Grub Street Opera' (1731) act 3, sc. 3

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• If Germany, my beloved fatherland, of whom you know I am proud, will not accept me, then must I, in the name of God, again make France or England richer by one capable German - and to the shame of the German nation.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Names, Patriotism, France

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1905). “Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”

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• England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.

  Henry James

  Swimming, Men, Clothes

  Henry James (1947). “The American Novels and Stories of Jenry James”

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• I love football, but I'm sick of the World Cup. I don't even care about England.

  Elton John

  Football, Sick, World

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• The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch.

  Anthony Burgess

  Divorce, America, Auras

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary art.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Mean, Thinking

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