I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are…
FIRST CLOWN: He that is mad, and sent to England. HAMLET: Ay, marry; why was he sent to England? FIRST…
Gorgonised me from head to foot, With a stony British stare. Lord Tennyson (1809-92), English poet. Maud, pt. I, set.…
There's nothing the British like better than a bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered. Melvyn…
Think of what our Nation stands for, Books from Boots' and country lanes, Free speech, free passes, class distinction, Democracy…
Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence. Tony Benn (b. 1925), British Labour politician. Speech, 31 Jan. 1963.
There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first,…
Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be "too clever by half." The probability is that too…
To many, no doubt, he will seem to be somewhat blatant and bumptious, but we prefer to regard him as…
The British are a self-distrustful, diffident people, agreeing with alacrity that they are neither successful nor clever, and only modestly…