England Quotes - Page 27

• In England, football is important for everybody.

  Arsene Wenger

  Football, Important

  "Quotations from the Public Comments of Arsene Wenger: Manager, Arsenal Football Club". Book by David Manson, 2005.

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• From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in Scotland is more flexible than in England. The truth however is, that an elementary difference exists in the public feelings of the two nations quite as great as in the idioms of their respective dialects. The English are a justice-loving people, according to charter and statute; the Scotch are a wrong-resenting race, according to right and feeling: and the character of liberty among them takes its aspect from that peculiarity.

  John Galt

  Character, Scotland, Two

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• New England clam chowder, made as it should be, is a dish to preach about, to chant praises and sing hymns and burn incense before. [...] It is as American as the Stars and Stripes, as patriotic as the national Anthem. It is Yankee Doodle in a kettle.

  Joseph C. Lincoln

  Stars, Patriotic, Yankees

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• I am glad you are come. When I was in England I desired that some one would speak the Great Word to me. I will go up and speak to the wise men of our nation, and I hope they will hear.

  Tomochichi

  Wise, Men, Speak

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• In England, pop art and fine art stand resolutely back to back.

  Colin MacInnes

  Art, Pops, Fine

  1961 England, Half English,'Pop Songs and Teenagers'.

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• In England, even the poorest of people believe that they have rights; that is very different from what satisfies the poor in other lands.

  Simon Heffer

  Believe, Rights, Land

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• From that point on, the extraordinary system of spies and informers which has played an important part in the political work of the French state into our own time took shape. (Sartine, who became lieutenant general de police in 1759, is supposed to have said to Louis XV, "Sire, when three people are chatting in the street one of them is surely my man.") Eighteenth-century police manuals like those of Colquhoun in England or Lemaire in France are no less than general treatises on the government's full repertoire of domestic regulation, coercion, and surveillance.

  Charles Tilly

  Men, People, Political

  Charles Tilly, Gabriel Ardant, Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Comparative Politics (1975). “The Formation of national States in Western Europe”, Princeton Univ Pr

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• In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.

  Bernard Bailyn

  Practice, Interest, Raised

  Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.167, Harvard University Press

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• The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution , there were no limits (save for the effect of trail by jury) to what the legislature might do.

  Bernard Bailyn

  Limits, Might, Constitution

  Bernard Bailyn (1992). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.182, Harvard University Press

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• The truths which are represented in England and Western countries generally, are those which refer to force of character, earnestness of purpose, conscientious strictness, noble charity, practical duty, whilst the truths which I find peculiarly developed in India - developed to a greater extent than anywhere else, - and in the Eastern countries generally, are those which have reference to sweetness of communion, sweetness of temper, meekness and resignation unto God.

  Keshub Chandra Sen

  Country, Character, India

  Parting words at Southampton, September 17, 1870.

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• I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me.

  Lennox Lewis

  Kids, East London, Boxing

  "Lennox Lewis Answers Your Questions". "Talking Point: Forum", news.bbc.co.uk. December 21, 1999.

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• The first life insurance societies where formed in England in the years between 1692 and 1720. In America, life insurance became available to the clergy through the Presbyterian Ministers Fund, founded in 1759 (still in existence), and the Episcopal Corporation, founded ten years later (subsequently merged).

  Andrew Tobias

  Years, America, Corporations

  "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

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• I think people in England take things for granted, we complain about our NHS system and yes it's not perfect but believe me it's far better than what they've got here.

  Alesha Dixon

  Believe, Thinking, Nhs

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• Catch a boat to England baby, maybe to Spain. Wherever I have gone, wherever I've been and gone, wherever I have gone... The blues are all the same.

  Jackson C. Frank

  Baby, Spain, Gone

  Song: Blues Run the Game, Album: Jackson C. Frank

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• The democracy which shows up in the United States and in England is not an ideal democracy, because the will of the people is under the pressure of property, which is in the hands of the wealthy capitalists.

  Hans Fritzsche

  Hands, People, Democracy

  "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.

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• If England had Fergie, Wenger or Mourinho in charge, they would win the World Cup.

  Andy Gray

  Winning, World, Wenger

  "There's too much football on TV, says Andy Gray!" by Alan Fraser, www.dailymail.co.uk. November 30, 2005.

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• We should not play like Australia or India or England - we should play like Sri Lanka.

  Mahela Jayawardene

  Sri Lanka, Play, Australia

  "Mahela Jayawardene" by Charlie Austin, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, www.espncricinfo.com. 2007.

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• I took a hasty trip to Germany, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and England to talk to the officials of each Government about their pension provisions, and to talk to the responsible ministers in each country about the political "whys" of their legislation.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Country, Government, Political

  Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart

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• We have experienced the truth of this prophecy, for England has become the habitation of outsiders and the dominion of foreigners. Today, no Englishman is earl, bishop, or abbott, and newcomers gnaw away at the riches and very innards of England; nor is there any hope for an end of this misery.

  William of Malmesbury

  Riches, Outsiders, Bishops

  "The English and the Normans". Book by Hugh Thomas, p. 56, 2003.

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• Germany, which has lately united 80 million Germans, has submitted certain neighboring countries to her supremacy and gained military strength in many aspects, and thus has become, as clearly can be seen, a dangerous rival to principal imperialistic powers in Europe - England and France. That is why they declared war on Germany on a pretext of fulfilling the obligations given to Poland. It is now clearer than ever, how remote the real aims of the cabinets in these countries were from the interests of defending the now disintegrated Poland or Czechoslovakia.

  Vyacheslav Molotov

  Country, Military, Real

  Molotov's report on (29 March 1940), after the Polish defeat, as quoted in the weekly Soviet newspaper "Moscow News", published by Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga, April 1, 1940.

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• The one enemy in the world that America has is England. But then, England is the great land of Christian civilization, and it may not be a thing to be much wondered at that our Americans whom we send to represent us in London become in a short time somewhat civilized, and learn to love those who hate them, bless those that curse them, and do good to those that persecute and calumniate them.

  Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

  Christian, Hate, Land

  Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa (1898). “Rossa's Recollections, 1838 to 1898: Childhood, Boyhood, Manhood. Customs, Habits and Manners of the Irish People. Erinach and Sassenach-Catholic and Protestant-Englishman and Irishman-English Religion-Irish Plunder. Social Life and Prison Life. The Fenian Movement. Travels in Ireland, England, Scotland and America”

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• The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.

  Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

  Progress

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• The laws of England will protect the rights of British subjects, and give a remedy for a grievance committed by one British subject upon another, in whatever country that may be done.

  Bayley

  Country, Rights, Law

  Forbes v. Cochrane and Cockburn, 2 St. Tr. (N. S.) 159, 1824.

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• I don't know an England player who could fix a light bulb, let alone a match

  Darren Gough

  Player, Light, Bulbs

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• Remember I've seen a video tape of a Scotland-England match and I've seen him miss a chance from five yards. It was against England and he couldn't score. So what does that say?

  Berti Vogts

  Soccer, Football, Scotland

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