Bright side Quote by Ana Patricia Botin

As we travel around Britain, I am convinced most of us cannot really appreciate what we are seeing. We take too much for granted,…

— Martin Parr

The British people are extremely conventional. You don't always know what one is thinking or feeling because it is basically hidden. The British people…

— Tina Turner

British culture loves the image of itself in the mirror; it doesn't want to look deep inside, behind the eyes, inside the brain, inside…

— Steven Berkoff

Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.

— Steven Berkoff

It turns out that understanding the British public is not rocket science. The British appreciate honesty and they also have a bonkers, off-the-wall sense…

— Nicole Scherzinger

I always find the idea of Britishness a bit of a boring old concept, to be honest. That world of Britishness always comes off…

— Giles Deacon

I think, generally, British people are more culturally cynical about the things that involve our own country. Especially the royals.

— Claire Foy

I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for…

— Jonathan Coe

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don't care attitude about clothes. You don't care, you just do it…

— Vivienne Westwood

The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something…

— Damon Hill

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be…

— Quentin Crisp