Affair Quote by Benjamin Disraeli

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

— Novalis

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also…

— Pete Townshend

They make other nations seem pale and flighty, But they do think England is God almighty, And you must remind them now and then…

— Alice Duer Miller

It would be wrong to interpret the growth of British national consciousness in this period in terms of a new cultural and political uniformity…

— Linda Colley

England was nothing, compared to continental nations until she had become commercial... until about the middle of the last century, when a number of…

— Samuel Smiles

Britain is not an island... well, yes it is, but...

— Anonymous

So long as classical education and classical prejudices prevailed, educated Englishmen inevitably saw ancient Britain as an alien land.

— Norman Davies

What a magnificent land and race is this Britain! Everything about them is of better quality than the corresponding thing in the U.S.... Yet…

— William James

“... "England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in…

— Mitt Romney

Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is…

— Cecil Rhodes

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