England Quotes

English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England.

Maggie Thatcher, your boys took a hell of a beating

Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day

In England there are sixty different religions, and only one sauce.

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode,
The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

I'm disappointed but I've had a lot worse things in my life.

One has no great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

In such constitutions [as England's] there are two parts…first, those which excite and preserve the reverence of the population—the dignified parts…and next, the efficient parts—those by which it, in fact, works and rules.

Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free,
How shall we extol thee who are born of thee?
Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set;
God who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet.

Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop.

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.

For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen,
Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

A merry road, a mazy road, and such as we did tread
The night we went to Birmingham by way of Beachy Head.

The cold queen of England is looking in the glass;
The shadow of the Valois is yawning at the Mass.

Be England what she will,
With all her faults, she is my country still.

That the king can do no wrong, is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?

If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England.

Oh, to be in England
Now that April's there.

we are the Germans of World Cup Rugby