Arise Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

— George Bernard Shaw

England is so dominant within the U.K. that separate English and U.K. parliaments and governments are a recipe for weakness and instability.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

I think, generally, British people are more culturally cynical about the things that involve our own country. Especially the royals.

— Claire Foy

The ruling British elite are like animals--not only in their morality, but in their outlook on knowledge. They are clever animals, who are masters…

— Lyndon LaRouche

The British people have always been a practical breed.

— Damian Green

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble,…

— Fiona Shaw

The British public are kind and generous, have buckets of common sense, and value fairness. We are known for it; other nations sometimes take…

— Penny Mordaunt

The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear,…

— Charles Churchill

These people in the North-East of Ireland, from old prejudices perhaps more than from anything else, from the whole of their past history, would…

— Bonar Law

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

There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.

— Chris O'Dowd