England Quotes - Page 30

• The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Males, Population, Female

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated): Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…”, p.1128, e-artnow

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• England and the United States are natural allies, and should be the best of friends.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Allies, United States, Being The Best

  Ulysses S. Grant (2007). “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.460, Cosimo, Inc.

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• England is an aquarium, not a nation.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Aquariums, Nations

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.49, Bantam

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• I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho' not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull; He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, whose Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family in that Country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call ourselves, and write our Name Crusoe, and so my Companions always call'd me.

  Daniel Defoe

  Mother, Country, Father

  Daniel Defoe (1998). “The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years, All Alone in an Un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, Near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque, Having Been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck, Wherein All the Men Perished But Himself with an Account how He was at Last as Strangely Deliver'd by Pyrates, Written by Himself”, p.3, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer. Even if they have no income and do not earn anything they always have a lawyer.

  Gertrude Stein

  Taken, People, Income

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.57, Random House

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• But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

  Jane Austen

  Gothic, Century, Novel

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• It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good to warrant the nervous apprehension which strains and dilutes it into nothingness. The English do not strain their tea in the fervid fashion we do. They like to see a few leaves dawdling about the cup. They like to know what they are drinking.

  Agnes Repplier

  Fashion, Drinking, Tea

  Agnes Repplier (1932). “To Think of Tea!”

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• English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

  Agnes Repplier

  Civilization, Tea, Cricket

  Agnes Repplier (1932). “To Think of Tea!”

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• The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

  Agnes Repplier

  Thinking, Permit, Traits

  Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.49, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too. Now go ahead and ask me if I'm still Polish. You people keep asking me this question. You want Polish artists to make it in the world, but when they do, you accuse them of treason.

  Roman Polanski

  Artist, People, Hollywood

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• Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions to civilization - this tea ritual and the detective novel.

  Ayn Rand

  Civilization, Two, Tea

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.307, Penguin

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• There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.

  Madame de Stael

  Country, Sea, Ships

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• When I read or hear of the mutual injuries of England and Ireland, I fancy it would have been a blessed thing had the sea never flowed between the two countries. Had they been all in one, surely there would have been more unity between them of interests and of feelings. But let us hope that days of peace and general enlightenment will arrive by ways past man's finding out.

  Sara Coleridge

  Country, Blessed, Past

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.139

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• I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishman's cottage, the King of England could not.

  John James Ingalls

  Kings, Home, Fate

  Speach in the U.S. Senate, May 10, 1880.

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• I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England.

  Dodie Smith

  People, Might, Eccentric

  Dodie Smith (1963). “The New Moon with the Old”

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• The ocean is the grand vehicle of trade, and the uniter of distant nations. To us it is peculiarly kind, not only as it wafts into our ports the harvests of every climate, and renders our island the centre of traffic, but also as it secures us from foreign invasion by a sort of impregnable intrenchment.

  James Hervey

  Ocean, Islands, Climate

  James Hervey (1856). “Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.90

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• One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.

  Fanny Fern

  Persons, New England

  Fanny Fern (1868). “Folly as it Flies”, p.163

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• England, a happy land we know,
  Where follies naturally grow,
  Where without culture they arise,
  And tow'r above the common size.

  Charles Churchill

  Land, Culture, Size

  Charles Churchill (1772). “Poems: By Charles Churchill. In Three Volumes. With Large Corrections and Additions. To which is Added, the Life of the Author. Adorned with Cuts”, p.143

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• June in New England is like a lover's dream made tangible.

  Gladys Taber

  Dream, June, Tangible

  Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”

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• History ... with its long, leisurely, gentlemanly labors, the books arriving by post, the cards to be kept and filed, the sections to be copied, the documents to be checked, is the ideal pursuit for the New England mind.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Book, Long, History

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1962). “A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and Society”

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• If Russell Wilson gets outside of the protection and can scramble around, New England loses. If the Patriots keep him in the pocket, New England wins.

  Brian Billick

  Winning, Nfl, Pockets

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• But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Food, Mean, Giving

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Englishman”

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• England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Food, Swimming, Islands

  Katherine Mansfield (2009). “Stories”, p.33, Vintage

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• Half of the receipts in our cookbooks are mere murder to such constitutions and stomachs as we grow here. ...in America, owing to our brighter skies and more fervid climate, we have developed an acute, nervous delicacy of temperament far more akin to that of France than of England.

  Catharine Beecher

  Food, America, Sky

  Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “American Woman's Home”, p.190, Applewood Books

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• Speaking of food, English cuisine has received a lot of unfair criticism over the years, but the truth is that it can be a very pleasant surprise to the connoisseur of severely overcooked livestock organs served in lukewarm puddles of congealed grease. England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.

  Dave Barry

  Food, School, Years

  "Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need". Book by Dave Barry, 1991.

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