Top Insularity Quotes

... Mr Jellyband was indeed a typical rural John Bull of those days --- the days when our prejudiced insularity was at its height, when to an Englishman, be he lord, yeoman, or peasant, the whole of t...

Travel was a species of warfare.

Insularity Definition

(n.) The state or quality of being an island or consisting of islands; insulation.

(n.) Narrowness or illiberality of opinion; prejudice; exclusiveness; as, the insularity of the Chinese or of the aristocracy.

The limitation prompting folly was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable.

There are proven ways to win the loyalty of tough, strong, ferocious men: play on the certain knowledge of their superiority, the mystique of secret covenant, the esprit of shared suffering.