261 Quotes About Britain

This was Oxford, after all

He had spent much of his childhood perched on the coast, with the taste of salt in the air: this was a place of woodland and river, mysterious and secretive in a different way from St. Mawes, the little town with its long smuggling history, where colorful houses tumbled down to the beach.

Brexit is the tip of the iceberg - there are so many endlessly complex permutations beneath the surface that nobody will see them all until Britain leaves the EU and maybe not even then.

As both lemons and pearl barley were now obtainable (1952), this refreshing drink formed part of one invalid menu....

A case could be made, in fact, that the English were the first victims of the British empire: without their conquest, that empire could not have been built.

Today, the real England sometimes feels like 50 million people driving around a motorway forever.

The first draft doesn't have to be perfect, but it does have to be written!

We now reflexly, and dishonestly, unmask all virtue as hypocritical, all beauty as Kitsch; and have become so jaded with simplicity and wholesomeness that we find Good insipid and crave the sharp stimulus of sin.

The English feel schadenfreude even about themselves.