Comfort Quote by Toni Duggan

Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast…

— Henry Lawson

I never felt particularly alienated as an English person in America. It doesn't feel culturally like a massive gap to me.

— Max Minghella

England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.

— Elizabeth McGovern

I like the culture in England. Why would I want to leave?

— Paolo di Canio

The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the…

— Tadashi Yanai

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

I have not got accustomed to English life. The food is truly disastrous and it rains all the time.

— Patrice Evra

Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled our screens,…

— Richard Flanagan

The English are laidback, comfortable socially, and getting along is easy.

— Eoin Morgan

I've been in England for a while, but it's true that at times you miss home, your family, your friends.

— Juan Mata

Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England.

— Dodie Smith

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