30 Famous England Quotes You Need To Know
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30 Famous England Quotes You Need To Know
Let’s jump straight into the quotes about England and British culture as well as it is very important to understand their culture to appreciate England and Britain fully I believe.
Those famous England quotes are from books or movies set in England, others from speeches, plays and more. They also span out through the centuries.
1 “Heaven take thy soul, and England keep my bones!”– William Shakespeare
2. “English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork.” – Maureen Johnson,
3. “No one says the word ‘quirky’ much in England. I guess because people are more naturally eccentric.” – Alexa Chung
4. “The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.” – Neil Gaiman,
5. “England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies and humors.”– George Santayana
6. “Just close your eyes and think of England.” – Queen Victoria
7. “There’s an accent shift, on average, every 25 miles in England.” – David Crystal,
8. “Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.” – Charles Churchill
9. “This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.” – Richard III
10. “As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale.” – Lily Collins
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11. “Growing up in the English countryside, I feel like I’m in a Jane Austen novel when I walk around.” – Lily Collins,
12. “The land of embarrassment and breakfast.” – Julian Barnes
13. “I love how excited you Brits get when there’s a hint of sunshine. It’s hilarious, and you have good humour.” – William
14. “I love England – it’s no secret.” – Nicolas Cage
15. “The English certainly and fiercely pride themselves in never praising themselves.” – Wyndham Lewis
16. “Your accents, seriously, be grateful for your accents.” – Billie Eilish
17. “If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.”– W. Somerset Maugham,
18. “England doesn’t have summer, it has continuous autumn with a fortnight’s variation here and there.”
– Natasha Pulley
19. “Happy is England! I could be content To see no other verdure than its own”– John Keats
20. “In England three are sixty different religions, and only one sauce.” – Francesco Caracciolo,
21. “I think England is the very place for a fluent and fiery writer. The highest hymns of the sun are written in the dark. I like the grey country. A bucket of Greek sun would drown in one colour the crowds of colour I like trying to mix for myself out of grey flat insular mud.” – Dylan Thomas
22. “A mixture, before the English, of irritation and bafflement, of having this same language, same past, so many same things, and yet not belonging to them anymore. Being worse than rootless, species less.” ― John Fowles
23. “The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.” – Earle Hitchner
24. “The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.” – Douglas William Jerrold
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25. “England is never in a hurry because she is eternal.” ― Henryk Sienkiewicz
26. “The daily chocolate left Will in high spirits, so that some days he believed he could wheel with the gulls that fished close to shore. Now that he felt so free, it came to him that the corner of England, which up till now had been his whole universe, was in fact only a scrap of a boundless realm.” – Sara Sheridan
27. “We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.”– Oscar Wilde
28. “Happy is England! I could be content To see no other verdure than its own” – John Keats
29. “In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.” – Brian Eno
30. “Typical English holidaymakers prefer not to mingle with foreigners since they strongly believe that they already have too many of them in England. The last thing they need during their holiday is to see and meet more aliens. Actually, that is the main reason why they choose a holiday abroad, to escape from aliens who occupy England” – Angela Kiss
This concludes this post about famous England quotes or we could also call it “inspirational England quotes”! Reading all of those quotes makes you want to plan a trip to England ASAP!
I hope you enjoyed reading those famous England quotes as much as I did, and hopefully, they inspired a trip to England.
No matter how you choose to enjoy them, I hope they ignited your love of England as much as the people who said or wrote them. I hope you enjoyed reading those famous England quotes as much as I did, and hopefully, they inspired a trip to England.
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30 Famous England Quotes You Need To Know
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