(1152 quotes found)
“I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to my mind, a very gallant lady, victimized by whoever it is who designs the tops of her uniforms.”
Leonard Cohen
“Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" to avoid libel suits.”
Stephen Leacock
“We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution.”
William Bolitho
“PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.”
Sir Thomas Malory
“Boy George is all England needs - another queen who can't dress.”
Joan Rivers
“When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.”
Bill Clinton
“England has forty-two religions and only two sauces”
Voltaire
“Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.”
Vladimir Putin
“England expects that every man will do his duty.”
Horatio Nelson