Britain Quote by George Mikes

“England and Britain and the United Kingdom are not the same thing. England is the country. Britain is the island containing England, Scotland, and…

— Maureen Johnson

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

— Novalis

A British imperium enabled Scots to feel themselves peers of the Ebglish in a way still denied them in an island kingdom. The language…

— Linda Colley

Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England.

— Dodie Smith

“the Welsh name for ‘England’, Lloegr, meant ‘the Lost Land’, I fell for the fancy, imagining what a huge sense of loss and forgetting…

— Norman Davies

The country I live in is never clear about its name. My passport says 'the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,' and…

— Gavin Esler

There are two completely different Britains. There's London, and there's the rest of Britain.

— Nigel Farage

“If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called "Damn It".”

— Anonymous

I am British. I love Britain for all its faults and all its virtues. My husband is American and I am largely based in…

— Helen Mirren

England is a very popular foreign country to visit because the people there speak some English.

— Dave Barry

Those who only know England know not England.

— Rudyard Kipling

London scene consists of mostly foreigners. We see ourselves as British in many ways, but not English.

— Hussein Chalayan