Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.

Pete Townshend

Pete Townshend

Also Being Brilliant British Class Difficulties English English People Even Fertile Hypocrisy Incredibly Live Make Modern People Place Sad Superior True

Related Quotes

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

— Jackson Browne

ClassEnglishEnglish People

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity

— Oscar Wilde

BritishEnglishPeople

English people are always surprised I'm English.

— Charlie Hunnam

AlwaysEnglishEnglish People

Dickens belongs to the English people.

— Claire Tomalin

BelongsDickensEnglish

English banjo players really were a law unto themselves - you don't find that kind of brisk banjo playing on the original Louis Armstrong or Bix Beiderbecke records.

— Pete Townshend

ArmstrongBanjoEnglish