10 Tweetable England Quotes

To tweet, or not to tweet? That is not a question. Sometimes affectionate, at times irreverent, clever and witty people have had a lot to say about England through the years. Spread some Anglophilia by tweeting out these fantastic quotes about England and the English:

Actually, a photo by Brett Jordan on Flickr.

1. "There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England." -Winston Churchill <---click to tweet

2. "The Englishman who visits Mount Etna will carry his tea-kettle to the top." -Ralph Waldo Emerson  <---click to tweet

3. "Be England what she will. With all her faults, she is my country still". -Charles Churchill <---click to tweet

4. "It is a mark of self confidence: the English have not spent a great deal of time defining themselves because they haven't needed to". -Jeremy Paxman <---click to tweet

Edited from Stormbringer, a photo by Paul Stevenson on Flickr.

5. "The people of England are never as happy as when you tell them they are ruined." -Arthur Murray <---click to tweet

6. "I travelled among unknown men, in lands beyond the sea; nor England! did I know till then what love I bore to thee." -William Wordsworth <---click to tweet

7. "Many continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game". -George Mikes <---click to tweet

8. "Other nations use “force”--we Britons alone use “Might.” -Evelyn Waugh <---click to tweet

9. "I like the English. They have the most rigid code if immorality in the world." -Malcolm Bradbury <---click to tweet

10. "Wake up, England." -King George V <---click to tweet

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