Quote by Bill Bryson

It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is always contrasted…

— Christopher Bailey

There's nothing the British like better than a bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered.

— Melvyn Bragg

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

There's an underlying puritanicalness in America that is not that different to the prudishness of Britain - it just manifests itself in different ways.

— Eve Ensler

There are two completely different Britains. There's London, and there's the rest of Britain. Attitudes are very different.

— Nigel Farage

When I'm in the U.K. I find myself using a lot of Britishisms.

— Darren Criss

I sometimes feel like a British writer more so than I feel like an American writer. But I think that has to do with…

— Claire Messud

Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the street or…

— Anthony Crosland

British people don't express when they are in pain. They don't think it's elegant.

— Monica Bellucci

One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority complex the…

— Pierre Daninos

I think Brits probably feel that Americans are more like us than vice-versa, if that makes sense. Because we get everything American over here…

— Hayley Atwell

British and American women have very different styles and a different way of living.

— Carolina Herrera