Kingdoms Quote by William Cobbett

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

— Hanif Kureishi

Suffolk has something more than the coziness of Kent and Surrey. There is a hint of wildness in its tamed beauty, and the tang…

— Patricia Moyes

The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.

— Malcolm de Chazal

No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.

— George Sand

An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.

— Anonymous

“It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy,…

— Henry James

I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different…

— Imogen Poots

We do have some beautiful houses in Britain, but we do have some pretty ugly ones as well, and I always think that every…

— George Clarke

A lot of London's image never was. There never was a Dickensian London, or a Shakespearean London, or a swinging London.

— A. A. Gill

If you go to London now, not everything is beautiful, but it's amazingly better than it was. And the Thames is certainly a lot…

— Freeman Dyson

We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

— Winston Churchill

The (U.K.) government's thesis that the countryside of upland and coastal Britain is 'worth sacrificing to save the planet' is an insult to science,…

— Simon Jenkins