Barbarians Quote by Tacitus

So long as classical education and classical prejudices prevailed, educated Englishmen inevitably saw ancient Britain as an alien land.

— Norman Davies

Once upon a time the English knew who they were.

— Anna Pavlova

Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be…

— Annie Besant

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

“according to the genetics, there wasn’t a point where a group of genetically similar people spread into the extremities of the British Isles and…

— Adam Rutherford

My wife and I have always been Anglophiles. We always felt we were born in another life in England. I was in the Elizabethan…

— Robert Vaughn

We had always been huge Anglophiles.

— Russell Mael

When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that's German and Italian, I have…

— Nicolas Cage

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going,…

— Isaiah Berlin

I can be described as many things, but no description of me is complete without saying 'Englishman.' My parents were from Liverpool and emigrated…

— Mike Myers

If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find…

— Nathaniel Smith

We fear the arrival of immigrants that we have drawn here with the wealth we stole from them. For much of the rest of…

— Frankie Boyle