Quote by Ian Mortimer

Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster.

— Sallust

The seafood in England is sad.

— Jessica Henwick

I am kind of a curiosity in England.

— Sam Wanamaker

I gave up fishing in England. It got too crowded.

— Jeremy Wade

“Elizabethan cookbooks included not only carving instructions, but the proper terminology for each type of meat such as “breake that deer, leach that brawn,…

— Francine Segan

Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low?

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“...when London is a grass-grown path and all those hurrying along the pavement this Wednesday morning are but bones with a few wedding rings…

— Virginia Woolf

If England was what England seems, An not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an' paint, 'Ow quick we'd chuck 'er!…

— Rudyard Kipling

When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather…

— Tariq Ali

A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace…

— Jonathan Swift

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?'

— John Mayer

“The rout, that dreary review of fashionable fineries, that parade of well-dressed self-infatuations, is one of those English inventions currently mechanifying the other nations.…

— Honoré de Balzac