E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.”
“England have no McGrathish bowlers, there are hardly any McGrathish bowlers, except for [Glenn] McGrath”
“England have nothing to lose here, apart from this test match.”
“England have players who can rattle anyone's feathers”
“England have the best fans in the world and Scotlands fans are second to none”
“England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.”
“England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.”
“England is a country of pianos, they are everywhere.”
“England is a country where people stay exactly as they are. The soul does not receive the slightest jolt.”
Source: The Little Virtues
“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.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches
“England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.”
“England is a nation of shopkeepers.”
“England is a profoundly bizarre place that has produced thousands of bands the world has worshipped.”
“England is a very popular foreign country to visit because the people there speak some English.”
Source: Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need
“England is a very strong league, with three or four of the best teams in Europe, but, if I had played there, I would have destroyed it, like I have everywhere else.”
“England is an aquarium, not a nation.”
Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual
“England is an incredible breeding ground for talent, yet it finds it really hard to sustain it or keep it. Once you obtain any kind of success or you step off the island, your ambitions become bigger.”
“England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'.”
“England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.”
Source: Stories
“England is my home, but Australia is my land and my country. This is where my heart is and where my family are. Australia will always be there, but I've made the decision to live here.”
“England is my home. I could never leave. I'd miss my family and friends too much.”
“England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly.”
“England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.”
“England is never in a hurry because she is eternal.”
Source: In Desert and Wilderness
“England is no longer controlled by Britons, we are under the invisible Jewish dictatorship, a dictatorship that can be felt in every sphere of life”
“England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted message, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr Goebbels. More than either it resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black sheep in it but with all its cupboards bursting with skeletons. It has rich relations who have to be kow-towed to and poor relations who are horribly sat upon, and there is a deep conspiracy of silence about the source of the family income. It is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts. Still, it is a family. It has its private language and its common memories, and at the approach of an enemy it closes its ranks. A family with the wrong members in control - that, perhaps is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.”
Source: Why I Write
“England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.”
Source: Collected Writings and Speeches on Britain
“England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.”
“England is one of my favorite places. The fans are just so crazy.”
“England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.”
Source: A Collection of Essays
“England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God save the King than of stealing from a poor box.”
Source: A Collection of Essays
“England is safe, if true within itself.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.”
“England is so surrounded by the boredom of conventionalities, that it is all one to them whether music is good or bad, since they have to hear it from morning till night. For here they have flower-shows with music, dinners with music, sales with music.”
“England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.”
“England is surrounded by enemies - by real enemies who hate her. Why? Because she tries to be honest; and she tries to be free.”
“England is the first country that I've had a no. 1 album in, so it is now officially my home away from home.”
“England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.”
Source: Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays
“England is the Mother of Parliaments”
“England is the only civilised country in the world where it is etiquette to fall on the food like a wolf the moment it is served. Elsewhere it is comme il faut to wait until everybody has helped himself to everything and until everything on everybody's plate is stone cold.”
“England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.”
“England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.”
Source: The Sayings of Disraeli
“England is very dreary, but I'm a people person.”
“England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their trade as nowhere else in the western world.”
“England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.”
“England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.”
“England must have the mask of Christian peaceableness [peacefulness] torn publicly from her face... Our consuls in Turkey and India, agents, etc. must inflame the whole Muslim world to wild revolt against this hateful, lying, conscienceless people of hagglers. For even if we are to be bled to death, at least England shall lose India.”
“England! My England! can the surging sea
That lies between us tear my heart from thee?
Can distant birth and distant dwelling drain
Th’ ancestral blood that warms the loyal vein?
Isle of my Fathers! hear the filial song
Of him whose sources but to thee belong!
World-Conquering Mother! by thy mighty hand
Was carv’d from savage wilds my native land:
Thy matchless sons the firm foundation laid;
Thy matchless arts the nascent nation made:
By thy just laws the young republic grew,
And through thy greatness, kindred greatness knew.
What man that springs from thy untainted line
But sees Columbia’s virtues all as thine?
Whilst nameless multitudes upon our shore
From the dim corners of creation pour,
Whilst mongrel slaves crawl hither to partake
Of Saxon liberty they could not make,
From such an alien crew in grief I turn,
And for the mother’s voice of Britain burn.
England! can aught remove the cherish’d chain
That binds my spirit to thy blest domain?
Can Revolution’s bitter precepts sway
The soul that must the ties of race obey?
Create a new Columbia if ye will,
The flesh that forms me is Britannic still!”
“England never felt claustrophobic for me at all. I think it would feel more difficult for me if I lived in mainland Europe. America I think is really easy because Los Angeles has film stars everywhere and musicians and Santa Barbara a lot of people have homes there even if they don't live there. You are kind of inconsequential, no one cares.”
“England occupies a warm spot in my affections. It was the scene of my greatest performance. I was born there.”