Baggage Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“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

You English are like mad bulls... you see red everywhere! What on earth has come over you, to heap on us such suspicion as…

— Wilhelm II

“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

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in…

— George Bernard Shaw

Fifty years from now Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and…

— John Major

England is very regimented. Go to work, come home from work, go to the pub.

— Tricky

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

— John Fowles

“Thomas Cromwell is now about fifty years old. He has a labourer's body, stocky, useful, running to fat. He has black hair, greying now,…

— Hilary Mantel

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

— Karel Capek

“... "England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in…

— Mitt Romney

Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred…

— Robert Falcon Scott