Books Quote by Tessa Jowell

The best thing about being from Britain is that it's a melting pot of cultures, characters, and creativity. I couldn't imagine coming from anywhere…

— Gabriella Wilde

I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual…

— Jerry Saltz

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

— George Orwell

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

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

Britain is just a melting pot for every culture. Like a pot for every culture around the world mixed into one. Artists over here…

— Skepta

I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary treasures.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth.

— Tony Blair

The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.

— Julian Fellowes

“The very notion of Great Britain's "greatness" is bound up with Empire,' the cultural theorist, Stuart Hall, once wrote: 'Euro-scepticism and littel Englander nationalism…

— Andrea Levy

It sometimes occurs to me that the British have more heritage than isgood for them.

— Bill Bryson

Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what…

— Antony Beevor