At least being prosperous set one apart in England; here…

“[...] but they and I had fallen apart, as one could in England and only there, into separate worlds, little spinning planets of personal…

— Evelyn Waugh

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 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

By hook or by crook, we're going to make sure that when I leave this office, that the country is more prosperous, more people…

— Barack Obama

If I were to offer advice to any president of the United States, it would be this: do whatever you can do to keep…

— Mitt Romney

Atheism can benefit no class of people; neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders insipid, nor…

— François-René de Chateaubriand

Jesus was the poorest of the poor. Roman Catholicism, which claims to be His church, is the richest of the rich, the wealthiest institution…

— Avro Manhattan