“I'm a pro! No, what I mean is I have performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company in England. I have been all over the place. I have studied theatre for seven years.” YearsMeanHas BeensCompanyEnglandSevenTheatreRoyalSeven Years Author:Kunal Nayyar
“I would like to wish the England squad every success. I would also very much like to extend those wishes to Martin Johnson, Brian Smith, Mike Ford, John Wells, Graham Rowntree and the rest of the England 2011 World Cup management team who have been fantastic and deserve people to know that.” PeopleKnowsWorldWellsHas BeensWishTeamDeserveEnglandManagementCupsFantasticMikeJohnsonWorld CupBrianSquad Author:Jonny Wilkinson
“The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies.” PeopleHas BeensMadeStillsReasonStoriesFilmGivenClassSuccessfulWrittenIndustryEnglandWake UpVarietyShockWorking ClassFilm IndustrySuccessful Work Author:Stephen Daldry
“I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been.” IfsHas BeensWould BeEnglandFollowing Author:Edwin Starr
“We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone.” Has BeensAbleIndividualInfluencePoetFineEnglandInsultInsulted Book:Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis
“The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators.” Has BeensJudgingEnglandOriginalsCreatorThinkerCraftsmanJurists Author:Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin
“He is someone I respect [Beckham] as a man and as a player. He is the captain of England and has been a European champion. I have never been critical of him and reports implying that are incorrect as I've never made comments about him” MenHas BeensMadePlayerEnglandCriticalChampionReportsCommentCaptainsBeckhamImplying Author:Jose Mourinho
“Although we lost it has been a great Test and one of the best I have ever played in. Hopefully the next one will be exactly the same.” Has BeensNextLostTestsEnglandHopefullyThe Next One Author:Ricky Ponting
“India is the one area of the sub-continent where we haven't won since I have been involved with England” Has BeensHavensInvolvedAreasIndiaEnglandContinents Author:Duncan Fletcher
“My ability to persuade my wife to marry me was quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been impossible for any ordinary man to have got through what I had to go through in peace and war without the devoted aid of what we call, in England, one's better half.” MenHas BeensWarCoursesAbilityHalfWifeImpossibleAchievementOrdinaryEnglandMy WifeBrilliantAidsDevotedOrdinary ManMarry MeBetter Half Author:Winston Churchill
“In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pushkin Press for reissuing several works by Stefan Zweig, a brilliant Austrian writer whose work brings to mind that of his compatriot Joseph Roth... these fictions are a treat of prewar European literature” YearsMindHas BeensEndsLiteratureFictionTreatsEnglandPraisePressesBritishBrilliantNewspapersKicksDecemberYear EndPushkin Author:Sylvia Brownrigg
“England was nothing, compared to continental nations until she had become commercial... until about the middle of the last century, when a number of ingenious and inventive men, without apparent relation to each other, arose in various parts of the kingdom, succeeded in giving an immense impulse to all the branches of the national industry; the result of which has been a harvest of wealth and prosperity, perhaps without a parallel in the history of the world.” MenWorldGivingHas BeensLastsNationsWealthResultsNumbersMiddleCenturyIndustryEnglandRelationProsperityVariousKingdomsImpulseBranchesImmenseHarvestWorld HistoryParallelsIngeniousContinental Author:Samuel Smiles