England Quotes - Page 5

• I went to America in the winter of 1872-73, authorised to secure, if I could, the passage of a bill demonetising silver. It was in the interest of those I represented - the governors of the Bank of England - to have it done. By 1873, gold coins were the only form of coin money.

  Ernest Seyd

  Money, Winter, America

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• No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have lost a game of football and let England's fans down. We are bothered.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Football, Reality, Games

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• We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep school manners, the aristocratic calm, the Skull and Bones mystery, the dappled lawns stretching before New England summer homes. How else can be explained the Bush vs. Kerry match-up that confronts us this year?

  David Brooks

  Summer, Home, School

  "Democratic aristocrats and blue collar Republicans". www.cnn.com. March 15, 2004.

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• I protest that we fans are being emotionally starved and frustrated by long periods of perfect performance of these batteries. More over, when there are nothing but strikes and balls going on, you relapse into your worries over the Bank of England, or something else.

  Herbert Hoover

  Baseball, Perfect, Worry

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• With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea.

  Laurence Binyon

  Thanksgiving, Mother, Children

  The Times 21 Sept. 1914, "For the Fallen"

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• My partner sometimes liked to go into the studio and improvise voice things just for fun. When I returned from England I transcribed one of her melodies, and had some of the hospice participants sing it, because they said they liked to sing. Their singing is very raw, but I'm going to use it for the final work.

  Meredith Monk

  Fun, Voice, Singing

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• Sometime, it will be found that people can be changed only by changing their surroundings. It is alleged that, at least ninety-five percent of the criminals transported from England to Australia and other penal colonies, became good and useful citizens in a new world.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Australia, People, World

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• We recognised that just putting more flights and more passengers into the skies over southeast England wasn't worth the environmental costs we-re paying.

  Theresa Villiers

  Airports, Sky, Environmental

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• The Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which originated in England ... [and] ... believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one-world rule established.

  Carroll Quigley

  Believe, Nwo, World Government

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• If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Reading, Knowledge, Historical

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.17

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• My Luftwaffe is invincible... And so now we turn to England. How long will this one last - two, three weeks?

  Hermann Goring

  Two, Long, Three

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• With two women every week in England and Wales being killed by their partner or ex-partner, we need to act now to end domestic violence. I am only too pleased to add my name to the Real Man campaign for Women's Aid.

  Tom Aikens

  Real, Men, Names

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• Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.

  Rupert Everett

  Writing, People, Age

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• Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England - that's how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean?

  Wyclef Jean

  Country, Mean, Haiti

  “Wyclef Jean: 'Fans are calling me the new Dylan'” by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2010.

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• Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England last year.

  Paul Muldoon

  Years, Judging, Lasts

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• I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!

  Jeffrey Archer

  Team, Interesting, Conservative

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• I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

  John Lennon

  Jesus, Sorry, Taken

  News conference in Chicago, August 11, 1966.

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• The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.

  A. V. Dicey

  Mean, Law, Principles

  "Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution" by A. V. Dicey, LibertyClassics, (pp. 3-4), 1982.

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• It has been said that the people of this country are deeply interested in the humanitarian and philanthropic considerations involved in [the Eastern Question]. All must appreciate such feelings. But I am mistaken if there be not a yet deeper sentiment on the part of the people of this country, one with which I cannot doubt your lordships will ever sympathise, and that is - the determination to maintain the Empire of England.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Determination, People

  Benjamin Disraeli's speech in the House of Lords, February 20, 1877.

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• Everybody I know in England was raised on Mose Allison.

  John Mayall

  Moses, Raised, Allison

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• 'English fair play' is a fine expression. It justifies the bashing of the puny draper's assistant by the big hairy blacksmith, and this to the perfect satisfaction of both parties, if they are worthy the name of Englishman.

  Joseph Furphy

  Party, Expression, Play

  Joseph Furphy (2016). “Such is Life”, p.342, Joseph Furphy

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• It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Daily Tasks, Insulting, Undressing

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• The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.

  Margaret Halsey

  Attitude, English History, Insulting

  Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

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• It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they implicitly believe in, merely from the scope it gives to these passions.

  William Hazlitt

  Hate, Believe, Passion

  William Hazlitt (1847). “The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte”, p.236

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• From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom.

  Heinrich Heine

  Boredom, Insulting, Kind

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