Quote by Maurice Dekobra

“I am afraid that as a nation we tend to over-organise. Abroad that passes for efficiency.”

— John le Carré

“There is possibly no insult so calculated to sting the English as the suggestion that they may at any time be considered foreign, as…

— Jonathan L. Howard

“Ah don't hate the English. They're just wankers. We are colonised by wankers. We can't even pick a decent, vibrant, healthy culture to be…

— Irvine Welsh

“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

“To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.”

— Jack Lynch

“times. As we lose sight of what the Anglosphere has achieved, we risk losing the institutions that have served to make it what it…

— Daniel Hannan

“English people are not mass-produced. They do not come off a factory line all looking, speaking, thinking, acting the same. Neither do we.”

— Paul Scott

“Every Anglophile has his own private England which is, of course, unrecognizable to the English.”

— Mark Dery

“There is no understanding Englishness without understanding its imperial and colonial dimensions.”

— Stuart Hall

“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

“The English will never be forgiven for the talent for destruction they have always displayed when they get off their own island.”

— Hilary Mantel

“It has also been the peculiar lot of our country to be visited by the worst kind of English travellers.”

— Washington Irving