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“Oh, I love London Society! It has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should…

— Oscar Wilde

“Oh, I love London Society! I think it has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what…

— Oscar Wilde

“This is certainly a beautiful country!  In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed…

— Emily Brontë

“Then, as now, nobody talked about the legacy of Empire. Britain had colonised, owned, occupied or interfered with half the world. We had carved…

— Jeanette Winterson

“I want a Britain that is one nation, with shared values and purpose, where merit comes before privilege, run for the many not the…

— Tony Blair

“But nevertheless, what remains - very broadly diffused through the modern British consciousness - is a warmish afterglow generated by a sense that Britain's…

— Stephen Green

“Britain isn't a world power any more. Its just like a zombie in that regard; it doesn't know when it's dead - Samson from…

— Paul Xavier Jones

“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

“Poor England. Too much history for its acreage. Years grow inwards here, like my toenails.”

— David Mitchell

“In my opinion, we didn't have to aspire to greatness. We were already there.”

— C.K. Kelly Martin

“...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 very notion of Great Britain's "greatness" is bound up with Empire,' the cultural theorist, Stuart Hall, once wrote: 'Euro-scepticism and littel Englander nationalism…

— Andrea Levy