History Quote by David Mitchell

“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

“England? The worst of all. You know, I do some business there, I have friends in England. Their flats are broken into constantly. The…

— James Salter

“I should see how it was possible to lead a grand life here—now—in England.”

— George Eliot

“What was England, before Wolsey? A little offshore island, poor and cold.”

— Hilary Mantel

“... "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

“I had long since realised that if there was greatness in Britain, then it lay in its everyday citizens, and not in its institutions.”

— Nikesh Shukla

“Whatever happens I want you to think of yourselves as young Americans, and I want you to be proud of that. It is difficult…

— Carol Ryrie Brink

“Britain: the land of embarrassment and breakfast.”

— Julian Barnes

“For this is England where a man's neighbours will never suffer him to live entirely bereft of society, let him be as dry and…

— Susanna Clarke

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

— Arnold Bennett

“Every Anglophile has his own private England which is, of course, unrecognizable to the English.”

— Mark Dery

“Old England is an imaginary place, a landscape built from words, woodcuts, films, paintings, picturesque engravings. It is a place imagined by people, and…

— Helen Macdonald