America Quote by Harry Enfield

Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed…

— Bill Bryson

We still retain in Britain a deeper sense of class, a more obvious social stratification, and stronger class resentments, than any of the Scandinavian,…

— Anthony Crosland

If you would have asked me what I thought of America before I came over here I would have used the word 'corny'. And…

— Simon Cowell

The idea of England in decline is very attractive.

— Martin Parr

We used to be so proud that our country offered far more economic opportunities than the feudal system in Great Britain, with its royal…

— Robert Reich

The best thing about being from Britain is that it's a melting pot of cultures, characters, and creativity. I couldn't imagine coming from anywhere…

— Gabriella Wilde

The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself.

— William Rees-Mogg

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

America is the land of the hustler: it's bigger, bolder, flasher, more in your face, whereas England's more about attention to detail - trying…

— Dizzee Rascal

I don't know if Britain ever really achieved that much glamour. We had post-war austerity rather than post-war prosperity, and our cultural products of…

— Quentin S. Crisp

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

— Hanif Kureishi

Contrary to received wisdom, the British are not an insular people in the conventional sense - far from it. For most of their early…

— Linda Colley