Being sad Quote by Pete Townshend

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

Britain is a desirable place to live mainly because it is an island, which most people can't get to.

— Peter Hitchens

London has changed enormously and so have the English in the past decade. They're more like Americans and more like Europeans, too. They're always…

— Doris Lessing

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

Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times,…

— Jonathan Coe

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

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there…

— George Orwell

The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.

— Julian Fellowes

Britain is blessed with a functioning political culture. It is dominated by people who live in London and who have often known each other…

— David Brooks

Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I

— Charles Kingsley

England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.

— John Cleese

I have lived in England for a long time. And I love it.

— Mark Bonnar