What fools American can be for England

Everyone in America thinks I'm American - and everyone in England seems to think I'm American.

— David Harewood

I think Americans have always been pretty outspoken. I always found that if you had emotions in England, it's like, 'Here's a cup of…

— Rosanna Arquette

The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English.

— H. L. Mencken

Americans assume all British people have at least one servant.

— Martin Freeman

Thirty millions, mostly fools.

— Thomas Carlyle

“The trouble with the English was that they were English: damn cold fish! - Living underwater most of the year, in days the colour…

— Salman Rushdie

The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler.

— Anonymous

The English nation is never so great as in adversity.

— Benjamin Disraeli

England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.

— John Cleese

I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew I could…

— Tom Riley

Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English history and…

— Meg Rosoff

I grew up in England, and people there are pretty difficult. They never say what they mean, and when they do it comes out…

— Christina Pickles

In the U.S., the term 'general aviation' means its exact opposite, the way 'public school' does in England. An English public school is private…

— Tom Wolfe

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

— Anonymous

There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools…

— William Booth