Henry James Quotes

I'm proud I'm English and I'm passionate about my country.

I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British.

Well, I'm British. I'm proud to be British and I love this country. I'm going nowhere.

My family has always been proud of being British.

I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.

I'm a British patriot. What matters is what is in Britain's national interest?

Bond may be a very international, cosmopolitan kind of character, but underneath it all, he is essentially British.

I'm a proud Brit and a proud Englishman.

I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.

I'm proud to be British.

I’ll put the “Great” back into Great Britain

Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It's like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride.

There are times this stony heart of mine feels a burst of British pride.

I'm three-quarters Russian, so I've always felt an outsider. But I don't think you can be in a play with John Of Gaunt's 'This sceptred isle' speech and not feel proud to be British.

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.

I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

The homeland affects you directly: it affects your body; it affects the collective mind and the collective heart and the collective spirit.

All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.

Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.

I love this country, but the union jack leaves me cold.

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.

I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.

I do consider myself British. I have very strong feelings about my British heritage.