Tedn’t fair. Tedn’t just. Tedn’t British.

I've covered a lot of the British countryside and the UK from top to bottom and side to side. It's such a pity more…

— Alan Titchmarsh

One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority complex the…

— Pierre Daninos

Ordinary British people don't on the whole find it easy to express their feelings, even to those closest to them.

— Vera Lynn

I get the sense that the British do not like to look at things on the bright side of life. Maybe it has something…

— Ana Patricia Botin

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

— Anonymous

Americans assume all British people have at least one servant.

— Martin Freeman

While we like to think queueing is unique to British culture, the truth is that we are mere amateurs. The old Soviet Union turned…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked…

— Paul Theroux

No, I didn't forget Samoan - I understand it when you talk to me but, you know, to put phrases together I sound like…

— Junior Seau

I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.

— Bat for Lashes

I'm not very good at standard English.

— James Nesbitt

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

— Glen Duncan

“evening, they began to think that although he could never hope to be an Englishman, still it would be hard to visit that affliction…

— Charles Dickens

Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say…

— Julia Glass

English teachers tend to put more thought in the books than the author did

— Anonymous