About Quote by Sebastian Faulks

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

I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.

— Mark Haddon

Because of the long, long history of British shipping, immigration, trade, empire, missionaries, you can have a better shot at telling a worldwide story…

— Neil MacGregor

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

I always find the idea of Britishness a bit of a boring old concept, to be honest. That world of Britishness always comes off…

— Giles Deacon

We, Brits, need to be sort of loosened up. And there's some transfer overseas, I think the more American fare that comes to the…

— Rosamund Pike

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

I'm not sure what's going on in Britain. I don't know what's going on in London. Because London is no longer an English city,…

— John Cleese

The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

— Anonymous

Through its imperialist system Britain brought about untold suffering of millions of people. And this is an historical fact. To be able to admit…

— Nelson Mandela