England Quote by Neal Ascherson Download Open image “I think England has been in the long-term damaged by Britishness.” — Neal Ascherson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare England Has beens Long Long term Term Thinking
The British happened to the rest of the world. Now the world happens to Britain. — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful. — Chris O'Dowd Copy Share Image
England is so dominant within the U.K. that separate English and U.K. parliaments and governments are a recipe for weakness and instability. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it just boils down to right place, right time, and just being able to break them big fights. Maybe it wasn't England's… — Darren Till Copy Share Image
Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is… — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the power to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I'm not really a political animal but I am rather fascinated by the meltdown of England and America. In the end, it seems as… — Rupert Everett Copy Share Image
It was a real revolution. But with one missing feature. That is the feeling in a people that "We have done it once, and… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
History--the product, not the raw material--is a bottle with a label. For many years now, the emphasis of historical discussion has been laid upon… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics. — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
The way that words mutate reminds me of fashions in music. The word--the note--is a constant. But the setting and chord in which it… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
Well, if there is a spectrum between ethnic and civic forms of nationalism, which is a rather schematic way of looking at it, all… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, most people lived their lives in a kind of unwilling conformity. The thing was that they were offered, as time went by,… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
But the people did get it. They had lost something -- not exactly their fear, but their patience. Suddenly it seemed unbearable to go… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
In Moscow, dim and green under the summer rain, columns of armour were waiting in the side-roads off the long avenue from Vnukovo airport.… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
“To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory. - Jósef Piłsudski” — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
When Tony Benn became a minister in the 1960s -- and I think this must be apocryphal -- he had a huge map of… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of revelation. But the most powerful is the vision which transcends the mental boundary between life and non-life, and Scotland… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell.… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I didn't want to do 'Fashion Police' because I thought, 'This is stupid, this is beneath me, who wants to talk about fashion?' It… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too.… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
'Downton Abbey' is my worst nightmare. I just hate that whole 'Upstairs Downstairs' thing, I think it's really lazy and it doesn't represent England,… — Tom Payne Copy Share Image
Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These fledgling democracies in the Middle East, they're actually fighting for their freedom. And what are they rioting for in England? Leisurewear. — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
In the olden days in England, you could be hung for stealing a sheep or a loaf of bread. However, if a sheep stole… — Mike Harding Copy Share Image
