Assimilation Quote by Peter York

The old culture had come out of poverty, out of English customs.

— Charlie Munger

I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little…

— Ed Westwick

Living in London, you feel the sense of how it has developed into a service city. People come here from around the world -…

— James Watkins

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

“At the lower end of the social scale, as well as among the gentry, enterprise and social mobility were part of the pattern in…

— Thomas Sowell

I grew up abroad, and when I first passed through London in the 1970s, it seemed a drab and provincial place.

— John Lanchester

In the 16th and 17th centuries, most people in Britain lived in small village communities. They knew all their neighbours. They dressed alike, and…

— Linda Colley

“The little court disappears—trade languishes—the capital decays—the people are impoverished—the Englishman flourishes, and acts like a sponge, drawing up riches from the banks of…

— Shashi Tharoor

I grew up in a very rural community in England.

— James Purefoy

“Supermarkets were introduced into Britain to destroy small businesses and create a sense of social alienation”

— Little Britain

“I have had so many Dwellings, Nat, that I know these Streets as well as a strowling Beggar: I was born in this Nest…

— Peter Ackroyd