In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. H G Wells
Be England what she will,
With all her faults she is my country still.
Charles Churchill
Never again will I spend another winter in this accursed bucketshop of a refrigerator called England. Rudyard Kipling
England is the mother of parliaments. John Bright
England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women. Robert Burton
Oh England is a pleasant place for them that’s rich and high,
But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I
Charles Kingsley
England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases. Leon Trotsky
The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England is so vile. D H Lawrence