Addison Joseph 1672-1719
We have in England a particular bashfulness in everything that regards religion.
Amery Leo 1873-1955
(in House of Commons)
Speak for England.
Anonymous
Coffee in England is just tasted milk.
Arnold Samuel J. 1774-1852
The Death of Nelson
For England, home and beauty.
Bagehot Walter 1826-1877
The English Constitution ‘Its History'
As soon as we see that England is a disguised republic we must see too that the classes for whom the disguise is necessary must be tenderly dealt with.
Blake William 1883-1983
Milton [preface]
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?
And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic mills?
Blake William 1757-1827
Milton [preface]
I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand,
Till we have built Jerusalem,
In England's green and pleasant land.
Bright John 1811-1889
England is the mother of Paliaments.
Brooke Rupert 1887-1915
‘The Old Vicarage, Grantchester'
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.
Brooke Rupert 1887-1915
‘The Soldier'
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
Browne Sir Thomas 1605-1682
Religio Medici
All places, all airs make unto me one country: I am in
England, everywhere, and under any meridian.
Browning Robert 1812-1889
‘Home-Thoughts, from Abroad'
Oh, to be in England
Now that April's there.
Burton Robert 1577-1640
The Anatomy of Melancholy
England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy a
paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes.
Cocker Joe
England to me was always the 3 o'clock break - that endless gap
between lunch and the pub opening again.
Collingbourne William d.1484
The Concordance of Chronicles
The Cat, the Rat, and Lovell our dog
Rule all England under a hog.
Disraeli Benjamin 1804-1881
The Continent will [not] suffer England to be the workshop of the world.
Disraeli Benjamin 1804-1881
England does not love coalitions.
Drabble Margaret 1939-
A Natural Curiosity
England's not a bad country ... It's just a mean, cold, ugly, divided, tired, clapped-out, post-imperial, post-industrial slag-heap covered in
polystyrene hamburger cartons.
Drayton Michael 1563-1631
Poly-Olbion
That shire which we the Heart of England well may call.
Eliot T.S. 1888-1965
Four Quartets ‘Little Gidding'
So, while the light fails
On a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel
History is now and England.
Florio John c.1553-1625
Second Frutes
England is the paradise of women, the purgatory
of men, and the hell of horses.
Gay John 1685-1732
‘Polly'
No, sir, tho' I was born and bred in England, I can dare to be poor,
which is the only thing now-a-days men are ashamed of.
Gould Bruce
In England I would rather be a man,a horse,a dog or a woman,in that order.In America I think the order would be reversed.
Hemans Felicia 1793-1835
‘The Homes of England'
The stately homes of England,
How beautiful they stand!
Hillingdon Lady 1857-1940
The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny
I am happy now that Charles calls on my bedchamber less frequently
than of old. As it is, I now endure but two calls a week and when I hear
his steps outside my door I lie down on my bed, close my eyes, open
my legs, and think of England.
Inge William R. 1860-1954
Outspoken Essays
The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have
been small states - Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.
Jerrold Douglas 1803-1857
The Wit and Opinions of Douglas Jerrold
The best thing I know between France and England is - the sea.
Johnson Samuel 1709-1784
Boswell - Life
Norway, too, has noble wild prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest
prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England.
Johnson Samuel 1709-1784
Oats: A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936
‘The Anvil'
England's on the anvil - hear the hammers ring
-
Clanging from the Severn to the Tyne!
Never was a blacksmith like our Norman King -
England's being hammered, hammered,
hammered into line!
Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936
‘The English Flag'
Winds of the World, give answer! They are
whimpering to and fro -
And what should they know of England who
only England know?
Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936
Puck of Pook's Hill ‘A Tree Song'
Of all the trees that grow so fair,
Old England to adorn,
Greater are none beneath the Sun,
Than Oak, and Ash, and Thorn.
Latimer Hugh c.1485-1555
(prior to being burned for heresy)
Be of good comfort Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as (I trust) shall never be put out.
Lawrence D.H. 1885-1930
Letter to Edward Garnett
Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable sodding rotters, the flaming sods, the snivelling, dribbling, dithering, palsied, pulse-less lot that make up England today. They've got white of egg in their veins, and their spunk is that watery it's marvel they can breed. They can nothing but frog-spawn - the gibberers! God, how I hate them!
Macaulay Baron (Thomas Babington) 1800- 1859
Essays ... ‘Sir James Mackintosh'
The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.
Malory Sir Thomas d.1471
Le Morte D'Arthur
Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.
Mikes George 1912-1987
How to be an Alien
On the Continent people have good food; in
England people have good table manners.
Milton John 1608-1674
The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
Moore George 1852-1933
No place in England where everyone can go is considered respectable.
Muggeridge Malcolm 1903-1990
Tread Softly (of Sir Anthony Eden)
He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
Nelson Horatio Lord 1758-1805
(at the battle of Trafalgar)
England expects that every man will do his duty.
Newbolt Sir Henry 1862-1938
‘The Fighting Téméraire'
Now the sunset breezes shiver,
And she's fading down the river,
But in England's song for ever
She's the Fighting Téméraire.
Newbolt Sir Henry 1862-1938
‘Vitaï Lampada'
The river of death has brimmed its banks
And England's far and honour a name,
But the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks:
‘Play up! play up! and play the game!'
Novalis 1772-1801
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
Parker Ross and CHARLES Hugh
‘There'll always be an England'
There'll always be an England
While there's a country lane,
Wherever there's a cottage small
Beside a field of grain.
Pitt William (The Younger) 1759-1806
(replying to a toast, as savior of his country)
England has saved herself by her exertions, and will, as I trust, save Europe by her example.
Santayana George 1863-1952
Soliloquies in England, ‘The British Character'
England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity,
heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humours.
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
„Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington"
This is England's greatest son,
He that gained a hundred fights,
Nor ever lost an English gun.
Updike John
Picked Up Pieces „London Life"
America is a land whose centre is nowhere;
England one whose centre is everywhere.
Voltaire 1694-1778
England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.
Wilde Oscar 1854-1900
If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any.
Woolf Virginia 1882-1941
The Common Reader ‘Lady Dorothy Nevill'
In one of those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are
known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.
Wordsworth William 1770-1850
‘Milton! thou shouldst be living ...'
Milton! Thou shouldst be living at this hour:
England hath need of thee.
Wordsworth William 1770-1850
‘I travelled among unknown men'
I travelled among unknown men,
In lands beyond the sea;
Nor England! did I know till then
What love I bore to thee.