Britain Quote by David Starkey Download Open image “Most of Britain is a monoculture. You think London is Britain, it isn't.” — David Starkey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Britain London Most Think You
London scene consists of mostly foreigners. We see ourselves as British in many ways, but not English. — Hussein Chalayan Copy Share Image
There are two completely different Britains. There's London, and there's the rest of Britain. Attitudes are very different. — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
Britain is just a melting pot for every culture. Like a pot for every culture around the world mixed into one. Artists over here… — Skepta Copy Share Image
London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
London has changed enormously and so have the English in the past decade. They're more like Americans and more like Europeans, too. They're always… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Britain is blessed with a functioning political culture. It is dominated by people who live in London and who have often known each other… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Britain is not homogenous; it was never a society without conflict. The English fought tooth and nail over everything we know of as English… — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
I suppose to a certain degree. London's my favorite place on the planet and the reason for that is its fantastic diversity. — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
I can't imagine London is different to anywhere else - people with cars are always the most popular. — Charlotte Ritchie Copy Share Image
It sometimes occurs to me that the British have more heritage than isgood for them. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
There are two completely different Britains. There's London, and there's the rest of Britain. — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
I was born in a council house, my father left school at the age of 11, had his teeth out without anaesthetic at the… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
I was a complete and typical only child. I was bookish, and sport was out of the question anyway. I had read all of… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Churchill may have made some horrendous mistakes - Gallipoli, for one - but he had a sense of the profundity and integrity of the… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
We have this extraordinarily unbalanced constitution, in which we have an elected dictatorship of the prime minister. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Historians have become far too precious. Their work has become ever more specialised and, as they steadily lose the context of their studies, they… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Floating the idea that every kid in Brixton can become a whizkid at information technology is dishonest. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
What I love doing is creating a room, with attractive paintings and colours and furnishings - very much my mother. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
In Britain, the press want to kill a show by revealing what's coming up and spoiling the pleasure. — Hugh Bonneville Copy Share Image
If we don't like modern Britain, then it is very unlikely that modern Britain will like us. — Damian Green Copy Share Image
It is time Britain put its trust back into the Labour Party. I believe I am the candidate that can make this happen precisely… — Diane Abbott Copy Share Image
The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make… — Peter Maxwell Davies Copy Share Image
We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I think the first person to call me 'Britain's Obama' was Martin Bright at the New Statesman. Harriet Harman made the comparison once at… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
As for whether what happened in Britain improves[Donald] Trump's chances of winning, I don't think so. He has the same chances; we may just… — Christopher Michael Cillizza Copy Share Image
Britain, like other European states, is not and never will again be in the top-world-power league, so its male leaders can afford to play… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image