Englishness Quotes

A strange people, for whom it is out of the question that anyone can be moral without reading the Bible, and strong without playing cricket, and a gentleman without being English! And it is this that makes them so detested. They never fuse, they never lose their Englishness. (José Maria Eça de Queiroz)
Britishness...is a political synonym for Englishness which extends English culture over the Scots, the Welsh, and the Irish. View quote
Gwynfor Evans
I think we are incumbent, I am incumbent, the Who is incumbent, anybody that produces anything by me is incumbent by my Englishness. View quote
Pete Townshend
'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of immigrant music. It's utter Englishness. It blends the Jamaicans, the Irish. It's like what Jim Reeves did with American country music. View quote
John Lydon