Quote by Emily Brontë

“In all of England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society.…

— Emily Brontë

“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

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

— John Fowles

“Poor England. Too much history for its acreage. Years grow inwards here, like my toenails.”

— David Mitchell

“Oh, I love London Society! It has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should…

— Oscar Wilde

“Oh, I love London Society! I think it has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what…

— Oscar Wilde

“England has a peculiar way of making foreigners feel exhilaratingly free and depressingly alone.”

— Elif Shafak

“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

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

— George Eliot

“Britain: the land of embarrassment and breakfast.”

— Julian Barnes

“Seriously. What was with British people? They didn't hug, and they sang their national anthem as if they ruled the world, which in fact…

— Rachel Van Dyken

“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