British people Quote by Rachel Van Dyken

“Oh , God, the British Have landed, Haven't they?”

— Alice Clayton

“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

“I had long since realised that if there was greatness in Britain, then it lay in its everyday citizens, and not in its institutions.”

— Nikesh Shukla

“Yes, well, rein it in, Prom King. British people have been successfully repressing our emotions since before your country was even a thing.” We”

— Holly Bourne

“England's civil war had ended in a consensus as the English discovered that they hated foreigners more than they hated their own countrymen.”

— Len Deighton

“England has a peculiar way of making foreigners feel exhilaratingly free and depressingly alone.”

— Elif Shafak

“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

“He had an accent. A British one. There was something about a British accent that had always made me quiver deep down inside and…

— Chelsea M. Cameron

“Britain: the land of embarrassment and breakfast.”

— Julian Barnes

“I’ll never forget the dejected looks of the British and Hessians as they surrendered while the British band, unaware of the irony, played “The…

— John Ripin Miller

“Probably when people hear our national anthem they think of me. A real American hero.”

— Jarod Kintz

“...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