England Quotes - Page 29

• I was born and raised in Nigeria. We lived in England when I was 3 and 4, and I would go to summer school every year in Switzerland.

  Toks Olagundoye

  Summer, School, Years

  "Talking with "Jackie Joyner-Kersee," from The Neighbors". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. November 30, 2012.

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• X-Files wasnt a big show in England.

  James Frain

  X Files, Bigs, Shows

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• No one has been buried at Mill Road Cemetery in Cambridge, England, for many years, and so the place has a shady, overgrown magic about it.

  Sophie Hannah

  Years, Magic, Shady

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• People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Reading, Play, People

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2008). “The Corsican”, p.469, Wildside Press LLC

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• The English nation is never so great as in adversity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Adversity, Nations

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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• The enterprise of America precedes that of Europe, as the industry of England precedes that of the rest of Europe.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Europe, America, Enterprise

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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• England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal family,--and if that family is educated with a sense of responsibility and a sentiment of public duty, it is difficult to exaggerate the salutary influence it may exercise over a nation.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Responsibility, Home

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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• The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Suffering, World, Workshops

  'Hansard' 15 March 1838

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• I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the discipline of political connection, animated by the principle of private honor, I feel certain that a popular assembly would sink before the power or the corruption of a minister.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Government, Discipline, Political

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• The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription, some of them fortified by muniments, but all of them the fruit and experience of an ancient and illustrious people.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Government, People, Paper

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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• An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Laughter, Thinking, Laughing

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• Thackeray and Balzac will make it possible for our descendants to live over again the England and France of to-day. Seen in this light, the novelist has a higher office than merely and amuse his contemporaries.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Light, Office, Novelists

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1873). “Thoughts about Art”, p.1

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• Here is one of the points about this planet which should be remembered; into every penetrable corner of it, and into most of the impenetrable corners, the English will penetrate. They are like that; born invaders. They cannot stay at home.

  Rose Macaulay

  Home, Born, Should

  1926 Crewe Train, pt.1, ch.1.

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• People get a bad impression of it [the English climate] by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Weather, Long, People

  The Observer, August 07, 1966.

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• Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next.

  James Russell Lowell

  Faith, Teaching, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.229

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• In England we see people lulled sleep with solid and elaborate discourses of piety, who would be warmed and transported out of themselves by the bellowings and distortions of enthusiasm.

  Joseph Addison

  Sleep, People, Would Be

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1832). “The Spectator: with notes and general index, from the London stereotype edition ...”

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• T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle,
  And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.

  Joseph Addison

  Rocks, Liberty, Mountain

  Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.37

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• Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Death, Home, Class

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• The grave is Heaven's golden gate,
  And rich and poor around it wait;
  O Shepherdess of England's fold,
  Behold this gate of pearl and gold!

  William Blake

  Waiting, Heaven, Gold

  William Blake, William Butler Yeats (2002). “Collected Poems”, p.134, Psychology Press

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• There learned arts do flourish in great honour
  And poets's wits are had in peerless price;
  Religion hath lay power, to rest upon her,
  Advancing virtue, and suppressing vice.
  For end all good, all grace there freely grows,
  Had people grace it gratefully to use:
  For God His gifts there plenteously bestows,
  But graceless men them greatly do abuse.

  Edmund Spenser

  Art, Men, People

  Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan (1859). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations”, p.175

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• Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time
  Is England. England!

  Alexander Smith

  Stars, Brilliant

  alexander smith (1853). “poems”, p.163

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• The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

  Bill Vaughan

  Israel, Florence, Minorities

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• In an ancient though not very populous settlement, in a retired corner of one of the New England states, arise the walls of a seminary of learning, which, for the convenience of a name, shall be entitled "Harley College.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Wall, Book, College

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.79, e-artnow

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• All the Armes of England will not arme feare.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.351

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• Poor England! thou art a devoted deer,
  Beset with every ill but that of fear.
  The nations hunt; all mock thee for a prey;
  They swarm around thee, and thou stand'st at bay.

  William Cowper

  Art, Deer, Poor

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