Alien Quote by Norman Davies

We had always been huge Anglophiles.

— Russell Mael

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also…

— Pete Townshend

The very notion of Great Britain's 'greatness' is bound up with empire. Euro-scepticism and Little Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose…

— Stuart Hall

The English are a tolerant bunch and, outside elements of the London elite, never much minded the rise of the Scottish Raj: after all,…

— Andrew Neil

So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I went to the States with that amount of prejudice which seems the birthright of every English person, but I found that, under the…

— Isabella Bird

One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority complex the…

— Pierre Daninos

Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.

— Tacitus

Everyone thinks England and America are the same, as we have the same language, but I felt like an alien as an English person…

— Jaime Murray

Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has rendered an…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“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

“Deep down in his heart the genuine Englishman has a rugged distaste for seeing his country invaded by a foreign army. People were asking…

— P.G. Wodehouse