Britishness Quote by Virginia Woolf

You can be an incredible player, but when you get onstage, you've gotta be yourself, and you've gotta bring it, as we say, and…

— Robert Trujillo

I have to say, if someone literally said to me, 'You're going off to a desert island, what is the one thing you would…

— Drew Barrymore

“I was hers in ways that those with loyalties of convenience cannot fathom. I loved her beyond words and clothes, and yes beyond even…

— Sonja Livingston

“It's a shithole but at least I can get a decent brew.' How very British, I thought to myself.”

— Kerry Daynes

“Peter Pastmaster and the absurdly youthful colonel of the new force were drawing up a list of suitable officers in Bratts Club. 'Most of…

— Evelyn Waugh

“The newspaper was always behind the news, not in front. You shouldn't ever go to the papers for information. They usually printed what they…

— George Lamming

“You know I am too English to get up a vehement friendship all at once.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“The myth that the island of Britain was the God-given property of Welsh-speaking peoples stolen by the Saxons meant that the Welsh were reluctant…

— Simon Brooks

“I certainly didn't concur with Edward on everything, but I was damned if I would hear him abused without saying a word. And I…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The fact that the Hegnish have absolutely no interest in any people except themselves can also cause offense, or even rage. Foreigners exist. That…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Go home, Johann — Walpurgis Nacht doesn’t concern Englishmen.”

— Bram Stoker

I have always, always loved words.

— Leandra Medine