Ashamed Quote by George Orwell

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there…

— George Orwell

England is the pinnacle of any Englishman's career.

— Conor Coady

But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.

— Walter Bagehot

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

...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion…

— Baroness Orczy

The United Kingdom Is Not A Country That Anybody Can Be Proud Of

— Craig Murray

The very notion of Great Britain's 'greatness' is bound up with empire. Euro-scepticism and Little Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose…

— Stuart Hall

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

Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It's like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride.

— John Lithgow

England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.

— Elizabeth McGovern

I think Britain is a little better at bringing intellectuals into discourse than America, where I'm from. Though I would say, perhaps, that the…

— Lionel Shriver

The English nation is never so great as in adversity.

— Benjamin Disraeli