Any Quote by Neil MacGregor

It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it: that it…

— Neil MacGregor

Contrary to received wisdom, the British are not an insular people in the conventional sense - far from it. For most of their early…

— Linda Colley

The best thing about being from Britain is that it's a melting pot of cultures, characters, and creativity. I couldn't imagine coming from anywhere…

— Gabriella Wilde

One of the brilliant things about Britain is the way you've managed to save old things but to keep using them - that they've…

— Bill Bryson

Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what…

— Antony Beevor

It sometimes occurs to me that the British have more heritage than isgood for them.

— Bill Bryson

As British people, we don't often face what our role in history is. We're only just beginning to do that. Storytellers have an incredibly…

— Rege-Jean Page

I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.

— Mark Haddon

I'm not a Little Englander. Historically, British people have always been travellers. I look in the world as one place. You have to think…

— Jeremy Thomas

“I don't think there's any deep psychological reason. It isn't comparable, say, to America's involvement with Vietnam and the emotional scars that that has…

— Valerie Fitzgerald

The British nation is unique, in that they are the only nation that like to be told how bad things are...

— Winston Churchill

The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth.

— Tony Blair