Civilization Quote by D. H. Lawrence

“It makes me sick,the blindness, deadness, out-of-dateness, stodginess and, yes, sheer jealous malice of the great bulk of England.”

— John Fowles

England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply…

— Colin MacInnes

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

— Hanif Kureishi

I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.

— D. H. Lawrence

“This is certainly a beautiful country!  In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed…

— Emily Brontë

Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that…

— Ben Whishaw

...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion…

— Baroness Orczy

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

— Arnold Bennett

The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.

— Anonymous

The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

— E. M. Forster

People are reminded that it's not all ugliness in the world.

— Thomas Kincade

You English are like mad bulls... you see red everywhere! What on earth has come over you, to heap on us such suspicion as…

— Wilhelm II