George Borrow Quotes

I'm proud to be British.

I love England - it's no secret.

I adore Britain! It's my favourite country; I love their eccentricity. I find Britain so inspiring.

I love England, the people, the parks, the theatre.

Great Britain.

It's unimaginable to meet a Pole or a German who does not know about the history of their country. But lots of English people don't know the difference between Britain and England.

I've always liked England.

I've always been passionate about England.

I just love being in the U.K.

I love London and British women.

I don't take myself seriously. Others should take me seriously, I don't.

At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so much at the work of the photographers Cecil Beaton and Norman Parkinson, which seemed to represent a wonderful vanished grandeur of my new country.

I just don't take myself as seriously anymore. But as a result of that, I am taking myself more seriously. My ego has gone on holiday, and it can't get a flight back home.

I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.

We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

I am a deeply superficial person.

Scotland is the Canada of England!

It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state ... it means the end of a thousand years of history.

An Englishman

Although I've been living in the British Virgin Islands for some time now, I have never stopped caring passionately about the U.K. and its great people.

My wife and I have always been Anglophiles. We always felt we were born in another life in England. I was in the Elizabethan era, and she was from the Norman conquest.

Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves.

I have a very short attention span, which is funny. I mean, you'd watch me and think that I don't, but I actually do.

The country I live in is never clear about its name. My passport says 'the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,' and citizens of the U.K. may call themselves British, English, Scottish, Welsh or from Northern Ireland.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don't have any flaws.