We have in England a particular bashfulness in every thing that regards religion.

-Addison,Joseph
  In The Spectator, no.458,15  Aug.

Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.

-Agate,James
Attributed.

Speak for England, Arthur!

-Amery, Leo(pold) Charles Maurice Stennett
  Shouted to  Arthur Greenwood, Labour Opposition spokesman, 2 Sep, as Greenwood began a House of Commons speech calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, immediately preceding the declaration of  World War II.

Possibly the symbol for America is the Frontier† The corresponding symbol for England is the Island† The central symbol for Canada†is undoubtedly Survival, la Survivance.

-Atwood, Margaret Eleanor
  Survival: a Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature, ch.1, 'Survival'.

What do you think about England, this country of ours where nobody is well?

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  The Orators,'Address for a Prize Day'.

It issaid that England invented the phrase,'Her Majesty's Opposition'; that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as much a part of the polityas administration itself. 51

-Bagehot,Walter
  The English Constitution, ch.2,'The Cabinet'.

Who can tell without instruction what is likely to be the effect of thenew loans of England toforeignnations? We press upon half-finished and half-civilized communities incalculable sums; we are to them what the London money-dealers are to students at Oxford and Cambridge.

-Bagehot,Walter
  'Postulates of English Political Economy', in Economic Studies (1880).

   The Parliament of England cannot have on earth so strong pillars and pregnant supporters of all their were always told there is one golden rule: no hanky panky in theTardis.

-Baillie, Robert
  On playing Doctor  Who. Quoted in the Sunday Times,7 Mar.

When you think about the defence of England, you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover.You think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies today.

-Baldwin (of Bewdley), Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl
  House of Commons, 30  Jul.

It fell about the Lammas tide, When the muir-men win their hay, The doughty Douglas bound him to ride Into England, to drive a prey.

-Ballads
'The Battle of Otterbourne', opening lines.

The one art-form that has been invented in England.

-Beerbohm, Sir (Henry) Max(imilian)
Of the pantomime.  Attributed.

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, Fallen in the cause of the free.

-Binyon, (Robert) Laurence
  'For the Fallen', in The Times, 21 Sep.

The things I've done for England.

-Biro, Lajos
  Line delivered by Charles Laughton as Henry VIII to Else Lanchester as  Anne of Cleves in  The Private Life of Henry  VIII (with  Arthur Wimperis).

The whore and gambler, by the state Licensed build that nation's fate. The harlot's cry from street to street Shall weave old England's winding sheet.

-Blake,William
c.1803  Auguries of Innocence, l.113^6

And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?

-Blake,William
  Milton, preface. Stanza1.

I will not cease from mental fight, Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand, Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land.

-Blake,William
  Milton, preface. Stanza 4.

When you destroy a blade of grass You poison England at her roots; Remember no man's foot can pass Where evermore no green life shoots.

-Bottomley, Gordon
  'To Ironfounders and Others'.

England is the mother of Parliaments.

-Bright,John
  Speech, Birmingham,18  Jan.

There is no nation on the continent of Europe that is less able to do harm to England, and there isno nation on the continent of Europe to whom we are less able to do harm, than Russia.We are so separate that it seems impossible that the two nations, by the use of reason or common sense at all, could possibly be brought into conflict with each other.

-Bright,John
  Speech, Birmingham,13  Jan.

Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the north of England.

-Bronte«  , Charlotte
  Shirley, ch.1.