Idealism Quote by Mark Dery

“What do they know of England who only England know?”

— Rudyard Kipling Alice Kipling his mother

“England has a peculiar way of making foreigners feel exhilaratingly free and depressingly alone.”

— Elif Shafak

“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

Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.

— Ogden Nash

“Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. Especially seeing England presents thee with so many…

— W.G. Hoskins

“I’m an Englishman, after all,”

— Michael Dobbs

“The foundation of England's greatness is that Englishmen hate to look fools.”

— Arnold Bennett

“By the early seventies I had become an Englishman – that is to say, I hated England just as much as half of my…

— Nick Hornby

“... "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

“I had long since realised that if there was greatness in Britain, then it lay in its everyday citizens, and not in its institutions.”

— Nikesh Shukla

“The difference between the English and the rest of mankind is that the English have long known the truth about themselves — which makes…

— Romain Gary

“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