Abstract Quote by Terry Eagleton

What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and…

— Will Self

The thing the British hate more than anything else is people who are getting above themselves. There are a hundred different expressions for it…

— Monty Don

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there…

— George Orwell

Daily we see how demographic change and uncertainty about what it means to be British is exploited by those with their own agenda; those…

— Chuka Umunna

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'm just not convinced that the British people I know and love are interested in revolution.

— David Lammy

“There is one aspect of the change in moral values brought about by the advance of collectivism which at the present time provides special…

— Anonymous

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

— Norman Davies

Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“In foreign politics many intellectuals follow the principle that any faction backed by Britain must be in the wrong. As a result, ‘enlightened’ opinion…

— George Orwell

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Hating Britain is a fundamental part of being British”

— Ben Mitchell