British Quote by Tariq Ali

“Small, inquisitive and solitary, the only child of an only son, growing up in rented lodgings or hotel rooms, constantly on the move as…

— Hilary Spurling

“The diarist [Anthony Powell] has never adhered to the tedious practice of reading only one book at a time”

— Lady Violet Powell

I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but…

— Ian Mcewan

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign…

— James Buchan

“More seriously-and this is probably why there has been a lot of garbage talked about a lost generation-it was easy to see, all over…

— Salman Rushdie

The European Union has lost virtually all of its credibility amongst large swaths of the European population.

— Tariq Ali

The European Union is a union of the extreme center. It's a banker's union. You see how they operate in country after country, appointing…

— Tariq Ali

The European Union is effectively a union dominated by the German political and economic elite. Its main function is to serve as a nucleus…

— Tariq Ali

To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.

— Giles Foden

There is not, in my view, a single European demos.

— David Cameron

The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did…

— Gloria Steinem

Every morning when I pick up the newspaper and read about an earthquake in Japan or problems in European financial institutions, the first question…

— Mary Schapiro