Day Quote by Katherine Dunn

I always find the idea of Britishness a bit of a boring old concept, to be honest. That world of Britishness always comes off…

— Giles Deacon

Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I think there's something amazing about British soul.

— Mabel

We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar…

— Winston Churchill

“this very year last past (supernaturally deficient in originality) rapped out theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to…

— Charles Dickens

I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have…

— Norman Douglas

The sea has formed the English character and the essential England is to be found in those who follow it. From blue waters they…

— John Buchan

“The very notion of Great Britain's "greatness" is bound up with Empire,' the cultural theorist, Stuart Hall, once wrote: 'Euro-scepticism and littel Englander nationalism…

— Andrea Levy

Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.

— Mary Ellen Chase

That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.

— Steven Berkoff

The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.

— George Mikes

“More recently, during a debate in the House of Lords in 1978 one of the members said: "If there is a more hideous language…

— Bill Bryson