Beacons Quote by Bill Bryson

Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.

— Zola Budd

“English muffin," a confection so grim that it could not have been sold in England even in wartime.”

— Christopher Hitchens

When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were…

— Henry Fielding

“Such heaped up platters of cakes of various and almost indescribable kinds, known only to experienced Dutch housewives! There was the doughty doughnut, the…

— Washington Irving

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

If England was what England seems, An not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an' paint, 'Ow quick we'd chuck 'er!…

— Rudyard Kipling

There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.

— Sean Connery

If England was what England seems, And not the England of our dreams; But only putty, brass, and paint, 'Ow we'd chuck 'er- but…

— Rudyard Kipling

After spending so much time in America, I started travelling with 'In Defence of English Cooking' by George Orwell. It's archaic and old-fashioned in…

— Jamie Hince

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

— Novalis

“By the way, I may have misled you by using the word 'tea'. None of your wafer slices of bread-and-butter. We're good trencher-men, we…

— P.G. Wodehouse

I've always lived in an English household. We had roast beef and Yorkshire puddings every Sunday.

— Owen Hargreaves