History Quote by Andrea Levy

The very notion of Great Britain's 'greatness' is bound up with empire. Euro-scepticism and Little Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose…

— Stuart Hall

“I had long since realised that if there was greatness in Britain, then it lay in its everyday citizens, and not in its institutions.”

— Nikesh Shukla

“The long-term integrity of the empire would not be assured by warm words alone. Britain"s own position in the empire had changed. Once, the…

— Charles Emmerson

“Across the Atlantic, in another theatre of the identity wars, the British prime minister was narrowing the definition of Britishness to exclude multiplicity, internationalism,…

— Salman Rushdie

“But nevertheless, what remains - very broadly diffused through the modern British consciousness - is a warmish afterglow generated by a sense that Britain's…

— Stephen Green

“the British Empire now stood at the very apex of modern civilization, and that it was the special burden of this empire to spread…

— Scott Anderson

“Every Anglophile has his own private England which is, of course, unrecognizable to the English.”

— Mark Dery

Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred…

— Robert Falcon Scott

“Then, as now, nobody talked about the legacy of Empire. Britain had colonised, owned, occupied or interfered with half the world. We had carved…

— Jeanette Winterson

As a child of the Commonwealth, I had been brought up to believe Great Britain was the promised land, a culture where the rule…

— Gina Miller

“the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human”

— Charles Dickens

“The foundation of England's greatness is that Englishmen hate to look fools.”

— Arnold Bennett