U Quotes

The best university in the world is neither Oxford nor Harvard. The best university is youniversity. YOU got the lecture halls of thoughts in YOU! You got everything you need to graduate with first class accomplishments put in you! YOU can do it!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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.

~ George Bernard Shaw

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

The Englishman has all the qualities of a poker except its occasional warmth.

~ Daniel O'connell

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

~ Winston Churchill

Socialism has been preached for so long the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.

~ Lord Thomson Of Fleet

Britain's best bulwarks are her wooden walls.

~ T. Augustine Arne

Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

~ V. S. Pritchett