Quotes tagged ‘England’

“All that we have done for you, we have done for the good of England.”

— Joel Edgerton, David Michod, Hotspur, Tom Glynn-Carney, imdb.com

“I don't know who started it and I don't give a fuck. The one thing I do know is that we did it harder, we did it faster, and we definitely did it with more love, baby. You can't take that away from us.”

— James Merendino, Stevo, Matthew Lillard, imdb.com

“See, to me, England was nothing more than a big fucking American state like North Dakota or Canada.”

— James Merendino, Stevo, Matthew Lillard, imdb.com

“And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by from this day until the ending of the world but we in it shall be remembered. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers, For he today who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother, Be he ne'er so vile, this day shall gentle his condition, and gentlemen in Eng…”

— Kenneth Branagh, Henry V, Kenneth Branagh, imdb.com

“'My mother was, in the tradition of parents, quite a complicated and contradictory human being. Moralistic but a devout lover of pleasure (food, music, the aesthetics of nature). Deeply religious but seemingly as comforted by singing a secular chanson as by prayer. A lover of the natural world who w…”

— Matt Haig, amazon.com

“What Jefferson was saying was, Hey! You know, we left this England place 'cause it was bogus; so if we don't get some cool rules ourselves—pronto—we'll just be bogus, too! Get it?”

— Cameron Crowe, Jeff Spicoli, Sean Penn, imdb.com

“Lower your flags and march straight back to England, stopping at every home you pass by to beg forgiveness for a hundred years of theft, rape, and murder. Do that and your men shall live. Do it not, and every one of you will die today.”

— Randall Wallace, William Wallace, Mel Gibson, imdb.com

“[about to make love to Helga Brandt] Oh, the things I do for England.”

— Roald Dahl, James Bond, Sean Connery, imdb.com

“Mary, claiming England means nothing to me. I was only interested in claiming you.”

— Doris Egan, Sebastian 'Bash' de Poitiers, Torrance Coombs, imdb.com

“I hate England! I'm glad we had a revolution!”

— Hart Hanson, Karine Rosenthal, Seeley Booth, David Boreanaz, imdb.com

“Dick Gersh: Tell me, Dr. Norton, what school did you attend? Ed Norton: P.S., 31 Oyster Bay. Dick Gersh: No, I mean, what medical school? Ralph: Oh, uh, he went to Oxford. Dick Gersh: Oh, in England. Ed Norton: Is that where it is? Dick Gersh: You mean you went to school in Oxford and you don't know…”

— Marvin Marx, Walter Stone, Ed Norton, Art Carney, imdb.com

“Ted Baxter: Whatever happened to the good old days when they had wars in England? Murray Slaughter: You'd find a way to mispronounce London.”

— John D. F. Black, Ted Baxter, Ted Knight, imdb.com

“So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.”

— Robert Mugabe, telegraph.co.uk

“Four years in England had filled Obi with a longing to be back in Umuofia. This feeling was sometimes so strong that he found himself feeling ashamed of studying English for his degree. He spoke Ibo whenever he had the least opportunity of doing so. Nothing gave him greater pleasure than to find ano…”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“The American Colonies in general are equally in danger from Canada, whether it remain in the bands of Britain, under the present form of its Government, or should be restored to the French, which many suspect is intended by the Ministry in England.”

— Benedict Arnold, amarch.lib.niu.edu

“When I left England for the first time in 1871 much of the world had already been colonised by Britain: Australia in 1770; India in 1757, and Canada in 1763. South Africa, however, was only partly controlled by Britain, and I saw this as a place where I might become as famous as Captain Cook, Robert…”

— Cecil Rhodes, amazon.com

“The marvelous thing about England is her luck.”

— Cecil Rhodes, paperspast.natlib.govt.nz

“When he first came to England, you know English people have a very big thing towards a spade. They really love that magic thing, the sexual thing. They all fall for that sort of thing. Everybody and his brother in England still sort of think that spades have big dicks. And Jimi came over and exploit…”

— Eric Clapton, rollingstone.com

“Music thrives wildly in England because they are jealous of someone else's success. They're jealous so they have to do better.”

— Eric Clapton, rollingstone.com

“Oh, the things I do for England.”

— Roald Dahl (Screenplay), Ian Fleming (Novel), James Bond, Sean Connery, amazon.com