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| England Quotes | No. | Quotation | Last Name | First Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All I would say is, that I can go abroad without your family coming forward to favour me, - in short, with a parting Shove of their cold shoulders; and that, upon the whole, I would rather leave England with such impetus as I possess, than derive any acc | Dickens | Charles |
| 2 | O England! model to thy inward greatness, Like little body with a mighty heart. | Shakespeare | William |
| 3 | This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war: This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea. Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands; This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England. | Shakespeare | William |
| 4 | England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee! | Bailey | Philip |
| 5 | We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held. In everything we are sprung Of earth's first blood, have titles manifold. | Wordsworth | William |
| 6 | Heaven (that hath placed this island to give law To balance Europe, and her states to awe,) In this conjunction doth on Britain smile, The greatest leader, and the greatest isle! Whether this portion of the world were rent, By the rude ocean, from the continent, Or thus created; it was sure designed To be the sacred refuge of mankind. | Waller | Edmund |
| 7 | This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. | Shakespeare | William |
| 8 | A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where freedom broadens slowly down, From precedent to precedent: Where faction seldom gathers head: But, by degrees to fulness wrought, The strength of some diffusive thought Hath time and space to work and spread. | Tennyson | Alfred |
| 9 | Broad-based upon her people's will, And compassed by the inviolate sea. | Tennyson | Alfred |
| 9 quotations on England |



