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“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

“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

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

— Mark Dery

“the people in this country who feel most like foreigners to each other are English people who’ve just arrived and the ones who have…

— Paul Scott

“All this, and discontent too! Otherwise, why am I sitting here dreaming of England? Why am I gazing at this campfire like a lost…

— Beryl Markham

“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

“What does it mean to be free—when freedom itself feels like foreign terrain?”

— Sasa Ljumic

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

— John Fowles

I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for…

— Jonathan Coe

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

— George Eliot

“No free people remain under the control of foreigners!”

— Hesham Nebr

“It has also been the peculiar lot of our country to be visited by the worst kind of English travellers.”

— Washington Irving