It is not summer, England doesn't have summer, it has continuous autumn with a fortnight's variation here and there.
~ Natasha Pulley
The days draw out, the weather gets warmer, and it's what we call summer, with a bitter laugh when we've said it.
~ Stan Barstow
In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once, by the doorman at the Carlyle Hotel.
~ Anna Quindlen
In the South of England northerners were regarded then as uncouth, brutish, undisciplined savages ...
~ Alison Weir
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
~ P.d. James
Feathers fell from the sky. Like black snow, they drifted onto an old city called Bath.
~ Stefan Bachmann
England is a nation of voyeurs.
~ Nigel Newton
Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears prejudices misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.
~ David Lloyd George
George III ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.
~ Edmund C. Bentley
God save our Gracious King Long live our Noble King God save the King. Send Him victorious Happy and Glorious Long to rule over us God save the King.
~ Henry Carey
Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.
~ Dean Acheson
His Majesty's dominions on which the sun never sets.
~ Christopher North
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
~ Charles Lamb
If I should die think only this of me that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.
~ Rupert Brooke
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Land of hope and glory Mother of the Free How shall we extol thee who are borne of thee? Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set God who made thee mighty make thee mightier yet.
~ A. C. Benson
London is a roost for every bird.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Remember that you are an Englishman and consequently have won first prize in the lottery of life.
~ Cecil Rhodes
Rule Britannia Britannia rule the waves Britains never will be slaves.
~ James Thomson
Snobbery - the pox Britannica
~ Anthony Sampson
The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: The one thinks everything right that is French the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.
~ William Hazlitt
The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.
~ Lord Rosebery
The English woman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.
~ Stevie Smith
The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly.
~ Frank Field
The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for 5 days.
~ Clement Attlee
The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
~ Truman Capote
The young Cambridge group the group that stood for freedom and flannel trousers and flannel shirts open at the neck and a well-bred sort of emotional anarchy and a whispering murmuring sort of voice and an ultra-sensitive sort of manner.
~ D. H. Lawrence
There will always be an England While there's a country lane Wherever there's a cottage small Beside a field of grain.
~ Clark Ross Parker
Without class differences England would cease to be the living theatre it is.
~ Anthony Burgess
You must not miss Whitehall. At one end you'll find a statue of one of our kings who was beheaded at the other the monument to the man who did it. This is just an example of our attempts to be fair to everybody.
~ Thomas Appleton
Though I love my country I do not love my countrymen.
~ Lord Byron
England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.
~ Voltaire
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
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.
~ Bruce Gould
England is the paradise of individuality eccentricity heresy anomalies hobbies and humours.
~ George Santayana
Not only England but every Englishman is an island.
~ Novalis
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
~ James Agate
In the end it may well be that Britain will be more honoured by the historians for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.
~ David Ormsby Gore
I regard England as my wife and America as my mistress.
~ Cedric Hardwicke
The Englishman respects your opinions but he never thinks of your feelings.
~ Wilfrid Laurier
