Country Quote by Edward Abbey

Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large.

— William Hamilton

England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.

— John Cleese

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'm just not convinced that the British people I know and love are interested in revolution.

— David Lammy

There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.

— Chris O'Dowd

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

— Anonymous

“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

The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish…

— George Orwell

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

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

— Michael Ignatieff

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also…

— Pete Townshend

We used to be so proud that our country offered far more economic opportunities than the feudal system in Great Britain, with its royal…

— Robert Reich