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“Someone who spoke English had been listening to his speeches of promised freedom and would have realized they were the drunken lies of men…

— Bill Carter

“It makes me sick,the blindness, deadness, out-of-dateness, stodginess and, yes, sheer jealous malice of the great bulk of England.”

— John Fowles

“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

“I know I am flaky, I accept that—and I know, as well, that I can mangle the good king’s English like no one else…

— V.S. Carnes

“I am not a terrorist. The death of the innocent is not something I take pleasure in—unlike you people. But hard choices must be…

— Stephen England

“The spectacles of pain and disgrace I see around me, the ignorance, the unthinking vice, the poverty and the lack of hope, and oh,…

— Hilary Mantel

“Whether the British ruling class are wicked or merely stupid is one of the most difficult questions of our time, and at certain moments…

— George Orwell

“The power of words is awful, Frida. Sometimes I want to bury my typewriter in a box of quilts. The radio makes everything worse,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Britannia, that unfortunate female, is always before me, like a trussed fowl; skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with…

— Charles Dickens

“...you know as well as I do that, individually, the English are very estimable and frequently generous, but that, once banded together to form…

— Maurice Dekobra

“The dominating idea of English society was not cultivate virtue but to avoid scandal.”

— Edward Short

“Minnie, I want to abolish the peerage. I write radical pamphlets in secret. I am not going to shriek, 'Oh, no! A scandal!' and…

— Courtney Milan