British

"The history of England is emphatically the history of progress."

Thomas Macaulay

"The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity."

George Bernard Shaw

"The British nation is unique in this respect: they are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst."

Winston Churchill

"No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute."

Paul Gallico

"England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies and humours."

George Santayana