England quotes

“There is certainly a higher percentage of wit in British comedy than in American comedy.”
Chris Lloyd

“- Cousin Avi: I don't like leaving my own country, Doug, and I especially don't like leaving it for anything less then warm sandy beaches, and cocktails with little straw hats.
- Doug the Head: We've got sandy beaches.
- Cousin Avi: So? Who the fuck wants to see 'em?”

Dennis Farina - Cousin Avi
Mike Reid - Doug the Head

“I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.”
Tom Hooper

People say: "Don't you miss it, Gal?". I say: "What, England? Nah. Fucking place. It's a dump. Don't make me laugh. Grey, grimy, sooty. What a shit hole. What a toilet. Every cunt with a long face shuffling about, moaning, all worried. No thanks, not for me". They say: "What's it like, then, Spain?". And I'll say: "It's hot. Hot. Oh, it's... (continue)(continue reading)
Ray Winstone - Gal

“- Major Ashley-Pitt: In our experience, Americans are uncouth misfits who should be run out of their own barbaric country.
- Matthew Quigley: Well, Lieutenant...
- Major Ashley-Pitt: Major.
- Matthew Quigley: Major. We already run the misfits outta our country. We sent them back to England.”
Chris Haywood - Major Ashley-Pitt
Tom Selleck - Matthew Quigley

“I didn't travel 10,000 miles to spend my first morning in England talking to some wiseass chick from Weehawken, New Jersey.”
Rob Lowe - Nick De Angelo

“Tea without milk is so uncivilized.”
Donald Pleasence - Blythe 'The Forger'

“In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.”
Chiwetel Ejiofor

“Would you like to know the principle, perhaps only advantage, of being the Chief Patron of the English Bowling Association? My fellow patrons are frequently too old or too ill to meet.”
Imelda Staunton - Queen Elizabeth II

“- Dr. Grace Hart: I could never live in a country with an unelected ruler, like the Queen.
- Watson: [scoffs] Whyever not?
- Dr. Grace Hart: In America we have democracy. Our president is a person our people have all chosen, an assurance that only the finest and most qualified man will lead, not a wealthy tyrant who cares for nothing but...” (continue)(continue reading)
Rebecca Hall - Grace Hart
John C. Reilly - Dr. Watson

“What's interesting about the U.K. is that it celebrates an alternative voice. It's up for telling new stories.”
Riz Ahmed

“In English eyes, all foreigners are sinister.”
Herbert Lom

“I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. - it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact.”
Jennifer Ehle

“- Leonard Vole: But this is England, where I thought you never arrest, let alone convict, people for crimes they have not committed.
- Sir Wilfrid: We try not to make a habit of it.”
Tyrone Power - Leonard Vole
Charles Laughton - Sir Wilfrid Roberts

“I hate the British! You are defeated but you have no shame. You are stubborn but you have no pride. You endure but you have no courage. I hate the British!”
Sessue Hayakawa - Colonel Saito

“An Englishman never jokes about a wager, sir.”
David Niven - Phileas Fogg

“Trouble with England, it's all pomp and no circumstance. You're very wise to get out of it, escape, while you can.”
Humphrey Bogart - Billy Dannreuther

“- Gertrude Bell: England needs to get out of its colonies sooner rather than later.
- Col. T.E. Lawrence: I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.”
Nicole Kidman - Gertrude Bell
Robert Pattinson - T.E. Lawrence

“- Sherlock Holmes: Madame must not be too hasty. She must remember that I am an Englishman.
- Nikolai Rogozhin: So?
- Sherlock Holmes: You know what they say about us: if there's one thing more deplorable than our cooking, it's our lovemaking. We are not the most romantic of people.
- Nikolai Rogozhin: Perfect! We don't want sentimental idiots,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert Stephens - Sherlock Holmes
Clive Revill - Rogozhin

My father left me when I was a child. The British Army became my home. They took me as a cleaner, in the kitchens, cleaning pots. They used to beat me. "Beat this wall, Amin". "Dig the latreen, Amin". And now, here I am. The President of Uganda. And who put me here, huh? It was the British.
Forest Whitaker - Idi Amin

“- Log Cabin Girl: But James, I need you!
- James Bond: So does England!”
Sue Vanner - Log Cabin Girl
Sir Roger Moore - James Bond

“- Guildenstern: I don't believe in it anyway.
- Rosencrantz: What?
- Guildenstern: England.
- Rosencrantz: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?”
Tim Roth - Guildenstern
Gary Leonard Oldman - Rosencrantz

“We may be a small country, but we're a great one, too. The country of Shakespeare, Churchill, the Beatles, Sean Connery, Harry Potter. David Beckham's right foot. David Beckham's left foot, come to that.”
Hugh Grant - The Prime Minister

“- Cohessy: Sir, what use is Euclid when the Germans are bombing everything in sight?
- Teacher: What use is Euclid? Without Euclid, the Messerschmitt could never have taken to the sky and dart from cloud to cloud and bomb the bejesus - out of the English, who deserve it after what they did to the Irish for 800 years. Euclid is grace and beauty...” (continue)(continue reading)

“- Willingham: That's wonderful, Duncan. Who is he?
- Phipps: His name is Jones. Ralph Jones.
- Willingham: Is he everything we've hoped for?
- Phipps: He has his strengths and his weaknesses. You see, he's American.”

Peter O'Toole - Willingham
Richard Griffiths - Phipps