1091 England Quotes for You to Enjoy

The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Europe. John Burns

Gentlemen Greatest England Europe Serve

For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard. John Cleese

God Great Me Man Beard Problem Old Damn Had Concept Narrow Up Very Close Old Man England Growing Growing Up

I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding. John Cleese

You Try Somebody Somewhere Sense Think Else Small Somewhere Else Fail Because Always Go Up America Get Just Again Pack Succeeding Succeeds Your England Things Here Chances

England was a delightful and stimulating place for a young academic, although by present standards, the laboratory facilities were primitive. There were almost no research grants and no secretarial assistance, even for Sherrington. John Eccles

Young Research Secretarial Facilities Delightful Almost Primitive Academic Although Stimulating Were Laboratory Place Grants Standards England Even Present Assistance

England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses. John Florio

Women Paradise Men Hell Purgatory Horses England

Now the master paid a number of visits to England and, as a Cambridge man, it is a source of pride that he taught there for a longer period than elsewhere in my country. John G. D. Clark

Man Pride Country Master Elsewhere Visits He Longer Period Cambridge Source Than Taught Paid England Now Number

My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a novelist were long, always plotted, novels - not just Victorian novels, but also those of my New England ancestors: Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. John Irving

Me Animal Writing Made Long First Ancestors Those Plot Almost New Also Attraction Read New England Always Were Just Want Which Victorian England Novelist Novels Extinct

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education. John Knowles

Education You Business Mother Father Virginia Both New Massachusetts New England Go However Were West West Virginia Wanted Place Them Really Meant Coal England Dad Originally

I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they're misrepresented through their politicians. John Lydon

Politicians Through Misrepresented Like Left American Often Really England

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England? John Masefield

Home Speak Fly Three Sick Too Maddening Would Some Devilish Hours Yard Got Still Coming Coming Home Off Times Heartily Being After Then England Who Navy Now Right

Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live. John Milton

Live How Precedence Forget Nations Teaching England Her

If you put a frog in boiling water, it'll jump straight out. If you put it in cold water and gradually bring it to the boil, it'll sit right there until it dies. Scotland has been sitting in England's gradually boiling water for so long that many people are used to it. John Niven

You People Water Long Sit Cold Out Has-Been Put Until Been Jump Scotland Frog Gradually Sitting Dies Straight Used England Boil Boiling Many Right Bring

Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S. John Pople

Time Better Decision Chemistry Research Some About Environment Clearly Still Leaving However Regrets Theoretical Painful England

We think it would be safer if the Bank of England had responsibility for solvency regulation of UK-based banks, as well as having an overall duty to keep the system solvent. Otherwise, there could be dangerous delays if a banking crisis did hit. John Redwood

Dangerous Responsibility Duty Think Otherwise Crisis System Would Would-Be Solvency Solvent Delays Having Could Had Overall Well Safer Hit Did Bank Banking Banks Regulation England Keep

When we've been bold on the Bank of England, on PFI, on great constitutional change, on the New Deal, we've been most successful. So what we have to continue to try and do is to battle with ideas and find new ways of applying those values as the world changes. John Reid

Great Change Battle World Try Values Changes Ways Those Find Constitutional New Ideas Most New Deal Deal Continue Been New Ways Bank Successful England Bold World Changes Applying

In any international sporting career an opportunity comes along that you have to grab. Mine came at Old Trafford in 1985 when I was recalled to the England team to face Australia. It was a huge chance to prove I belonged in the Test side but I failed to take it. Jonathan Agnew

My only real claim to fame is that I was southern England show-jumping champion in 1966. The day after my father died, 'Horse & Hound' magazine tipped me as a future Olympic champion, and I took it seriously. You can only really enjoy something if you take it seriously. Jonathan Dimbleby

Future Day Me You Champion Seriously Father Enjoy Took Claim Magazine Something Only Horse Take Hound Real Fame Southern Died After Really England Olympic

After college, I went to England and studied for a couple years. Jonathan Galassi

College Studied Couple Couple Years Years After England

In her religious role, the Queen is head of the Church of England, but in her civic role she cares for all her subjects, and no one is better at making everyone she meets feel valued. Jonathan Sacks

Queen Better Church Cares Everyone Meets Valued Religious Civic No-One Head Feel She Making Subjects Role England Her

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