Quote by Sarah Vowell

“I have been in several provinces of that kingdom. In some, one half of the people are fools and madmen; in some, they are…

— Voltaire

“Britannia, that unfortunate female, is always before me, like a trussed fowl; skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with…

— Charles Dickens

“Beware the Anglo-Catholics. They're all sodomites with unpleasant accents." --Cousin Jasper”

— Evelyn Waugh

“The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like scholars over a bulldog's pedigree.”

— Robert Bolt

“It makes me sick,the blindness, deadness, out-of-dateness, stodginess and, yes, sheer jealous malice of the great bulk of England.”

— John Fowles

“If England wants a happy, well-fed aristocracy, she mustn't have wars. She can't have it both ways.”

— P G Wodehouse

“For the love of God, woman, there's only one rule in that bloody book worth following.' 'And that is?' Elizabeth asked disdainfully. 'That you…

— Julia Quinn

“Tyndale once told a Catholic antagonist: “I defy the Pope and all his laws. If God spare my life, before many years I will…

— Ron Rhodes

Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!

— Daniel Defoe

“By the wrath of God, queen of England.”

— Eleanor of Aquitaine

“That we shall, in like manner, without respect of persons endeavour the extirpation of Popery, Prelacy, (that is, church-government by Archbishops, Bishops, their Chancellors,…

— Various

“Lord, lord, the snobbery of the English!”

— Virginia Woolf