Drifting Quote by Beatrice Webb

...and was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after more than…

— R. H. Tawney

We have experienced the truth of this prophecy, for England has become the habitation of outsiders and the dominion of foreigners. Today, no Englishman…

— William of Malmesbury

The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is visible then that it was not any Heathen Religion or other Idolatrous Superstition, that first put Man upon crossing his Appetites and…

— Bernard de Mandeville

We have in England a particular bashfulness in every thing that regards religion.

— Joseph Addison

“The pastoral Left, religious Right, and everywhere in between were afflicted by a resurgent sentimentality and desire for immediate gratification incompatible with the uncompromising…

— Bruce Cannon Gibney

Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.

— Henry Ward Beecher

It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.

— Alfred Douglas

“In the modern world, we are primarily confronted with the extraordinary spectacle of people turning to new ideals because they have not tried the…

— G. K. Chesterton

There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to fanaticism; free-thinking…

— George Berkeley

“One need not be a rabid Anglican to be extremely sensible to the charm of an English country church...”

— Henry James

“When I left this country, the best part of forty years ago, England still seemed to have a soul. It had pulled together after…

— A.N. Wilson