People Quote by Jonathan Meades

I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.

— Ian Mckellen

Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman!

— William Hague

I always loved the Yorkshire members and was passionate about playing for the county, but the people who were running the club made it…

— Geoffrey Boycott

The Yorkshire people are incredibly friendly and genuine - whether it's going out for dinner or getting a haircut.

— Jesse Marsch

West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.

— David Hockney

Once you kind of get past doing the Yorkshire Championships, and the Northern Championships, and you go to the British Champs it's like, 'oh…

— Kadeena Cox

It sometimes occurs to me that the British have more heritage than isgood for them.

— Bill Bryson

In our day-to-day lives we're not very introspective - especially not British northern blokes.

— Ant McPartlin

Yorkshire folk are not fools: talk about devolving power to cities and regions, while simultaneously stripping them of the resources to deliver and subjecting…

— Jo Cox

I think of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think…

— Helen Mirren

And there was that letter from the Bramleys—that really made me feel good. You don’t find people like the Bramleys now; radio, television and…

— James Herriot

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