England Quotes - Page 39

• My shape reminds me a lot of my grandmother, whom I was really close to. She died when I was 13, and we have a really similar body type, the squat New England woman who can roll out dough and bring in your lawnmower. That's kind of the vibe of my body, and I'm into it.

  Lena Dunham

  Grandmother, Body Types, Shapes

  "The Conversation With Actor/Writer/Director/Producer (And Runner) Lena Dunham". Interview with Allison Glock, espn.go.com. September 21, 2015.

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• I have an apartment back home in London. England will be home for me. It always has been and always will be. It's where my friends are.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Home, London, Apartment

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Georgian England, to see those wonderful houses being built. And the clothes were interesting too, although I wouldn't want to wear a wig. It's also the most beautiful period of English landscape gardening. They had famous gardeners like Capability Brown.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Beautiful, Clothes, Interesting

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell. It was news to me that there had been talk, even in the First World War, of dropping Colorado beetles on German potato crops and that kind of thing.

  Nicholson Baker

  War, Colorado, News

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.

  Daniel Defoe

  Gentleman, Peers, Rakes

  Daniel Defoe (1855). “The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe”, p.443

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• When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Country, Mean, Patriotic

  "Lend Me Your Ears : Great Speeches In History" by William Safire, (p. 81 - 82), 2004.

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• I grew up in the 80s in England: we'd wake up each morning and look out the window to see if the government had finally put Daleks on the streets.

  Warren Ellis

  Morning, Bad Ass, Government

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• Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.

  Sydney Smith

  Sarcastic, Scotland, Knuckles

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• There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

  Francis Bacon

  Cat, Men, Cunning Man

  Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.334

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• The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake; the wind may blow though it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England may not enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.

  William Pitt

  Kings, Rain, Blow

  Speech in House of Commons, ca. March 1763 See Coke 1; Coke 8; Otis 2

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• England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

  Voltaire

  Atheist, Two, Religion

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• Give me 100 men that hate nothing but sin, and love Jesus Christ, and we'll shake England for God.

  John Wesley

  Jesus, Hate, Life Changing

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• If Glenn Hoddle had been any other nationality, he would have had 70 or 80 caps for England.

  John Barnes

  Football, Caps, Ifs

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• [T]he liberty, the unalienable, indefeasible rights of men, the honor and dignity of human nature, the grandeur and glory of the public, and the universal happiness of individuals, were never so skillfully and successfully consulted as in that most excellent monument of human art, the common law of England.

  John Adams

  Art, Freedom, Men

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.440

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• If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

  Voltaire

  Peace, Cutting, Two

  Voltaire (2016). “Treatise on Toleration”, p.22, Penguin UK

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• A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class.

  David Frost

  Class, Insulting, Definitions

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• I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians in England.

  John Wesley

  Mother, Christianity, Theologian

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• I believe there is no liturgy in the world, either in ancient or modern language, which breathes more of a solid, scriptural, rational piety, than the Common Prayer of the Church of England.  And though the main of it was compiled considerably more than two hundred years ago, yet is the language of it, not only pure, but strong and elegant in the highest degree.

  John Wesley

  Strong, Prayer, Believe

  John Wesley “John Wesley's The Book of Common Prayer”, Lulu.com

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• To subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, to break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils and to assert the independence of my country- these were my objectives. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of all past dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter - these were my means.

  Wolfe Tone

  Country, Memories, Mean

  Sean Cronin, Richard Roche, Theobald Wolfe Tone (1973). “Freedom the Wolfe Tone way”

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• England is the Mother of Parliaments

  John Bright

  Mother, Parliament

  Speech, Birmingham, England, 18 Jan. 1865

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• Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks today is, quite simply, sense.

  Paul Johnson

  America, World, Mixtures

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• England have nothing to lose here, apart from this test match.

  David Lloyd

  Tests, Nothing To Lose, Loses

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Whoever heard a man of fortune in England talk of the necessaries of life? . . . Whether we can afford it or no, we must have superfluities.

  John Gay

  Life, Men, Fortune

  John Gay, John Christopher Pepusch (1729). “The Second Part of The Beggars Opera ...”, p.2

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• On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,-a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.

  Daniel Webster

  Morning, Military, Power

  Speech in the Senate on the President's Protest, 7 May 1834

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• In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.

  Voltaire

  Country, Time, Failure

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