England Quotes

“Think of what our Nation stands for, Books from Boots' and country lanes, Free speech, free passes, class distinction, Democracy and proper drains.”

“One of my ambitions is to walk into a pub in Margate and buy a pint of bitter.”

“The Bible was the single most powerful formative influence on the minds of Englishmen.”

“The music of the English countryside is not to be slighted, but it is not easily shared.”

“The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.”

“The English can't stand a cockney accent, but they love a cockney character.”

“The Englishman's virtue is his stolidity, his inability to be flustered. His vice is his stolidity, his inability to be enthused.”

“Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.”

“God! I will pack, and take a train, And get me to England once again! For England's the one land, I know, Where men with Splendid Hearts may go.”

“Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?”

“England is the only country in the world where the food is more dangerous than the sex.”

“Of all the nations in the world, the English are the most proud and arrogant.”

“English as tuppence, changing yet changeless as canal water, nestling in green nowhere.”

“A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam.”

“It is the custom of the English to be very joyous on the occasion of a victory.”

“In England, we have this thing about class. It's not a meritocracy, it's about who you know.”

“What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?”

“The English disease, we are told, is a tendency to nostalgia, to look back to a golden age that never was.”

“What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia!”

“The soil of England, so far as it has been hitherto cultivated, has been carried to a degree of perfection hitherto unknown.”