Quote by Geoffrey Household

“London created the Underground, and the Underground created London.”

— John Lanchester

“What I'm saying is simply that every totalitarian society, no matter how strict, has had its underground. In fact, two undergrounds. There's the underground…

— Tom Robbins

“True belonging has no bunkers. We have to step out from behind the barricades of self-preservation and brave the wild.”

— Brené Brown

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

— Elif Shafak

Quotes from the Underground is a remarkable resource and must-read for writers, researchers, activists and indeed anyone who embraces progressive values and hopes to…

— Joel Bakan

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

— Mark Dery

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

— David Mitchell

“The industrial towns were far away, a smudge of smoke and misery hidden by the curve of the earth's surface. Down here it was…

— George Orwell

“I remember years ago a guy I knew told me that people going to England find exactly what they go looking for.”

— Helene Hanff

“Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. Especially seeing England presents thee with so many…

— W.G. Hoskins

“But it's not so much a headache as possession, my head an occupied territory, and my normal self, a disenfranchised native populace, driven underground.”

— Andrew Levy

“I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it.”

— Gustave Flaubert