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Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton. ~ E.M. Delafield
Englishmen quotes by E.M. Delafield
The Englishman's strong point is his vigorous insularity; that of the American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes has its perils. The Englishman stands firmly on his feet, but he who merely does this never advances. The American's disposition is to step forward even at the risk of a fall. ~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Englishmen quotes by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom. ~ Heinrich Heine
Englishmen quotes by Heinrich Heine
You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements. ~ William Butler Yeats
Englishmen quotes by William Butler Yeats
The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen. ~ Winston Churchill
Englishmen quotes by Winston Churchill
The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Englishmen quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
He doesn't want to face Englishmen,' the Lord of Douglas said, and he knew he was right. Ever since the Scottish knights ~ Bernard Cornwell
Englishmen quotes by Bernard Cornwell
How many sepoys were brought by the Musalmans? How many Englishmen are there? Where, except in India, can be had millions of men who will cut the throats of their own fathers and brothers for six rupees? Sixty millions of Musalmans in seven hundred years of Mohammedan rule, and two millions of Christians in one hundred years of Christian rule - what makes it so? ~ Swami Vivekananda
Englishmen quotes by Swami Vivekananda
Englishmen did not speak to strangers on trains ... ~ Ken Follett
Englishmen quotes by Ken Follett
This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak - the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in the way of amusement, of travel, or of bread-winning. ~ Joseph Conrad
Englishmen quotes by Joseph Conrad
We used to do sock puppet shows for my auntie back in the day. Me and my friends would do accents of Englishmen, and we would sip tea and act like we were rich in front of the family, and they thought it was just hilarious, the level of perception that we had about things that we'd never experienced. ~ Keith Stanfield
Englishmen quotes by Keith Stanfield
Secondly, these missionaries would gradually, and without creating suspicion or exciting alarm, introduce a rudimentary cleanliness among the nobility, and from them it would work down to the people, if the priests could be kept quiet. This would undermine the Church. I mean would be a step toward that. Next, education - next, freedom - and then she would begin to crumble. It being my conviction that any Established Church is an established crime, an established slave-pen, I had no scruples, but was willing to assail it in any way or with any weapon that promised to hurt it. Why, in my own former day - in remote centuries not yet stirring in the womb of time - there were old Englishmen who imagined that they had been born in a free country: a "free" country with the Corporation Act and the Test still in force in it - timbers propped against men's liberties and dishonored consciences to shore up an Established Anachronism with. ~ Mark Twain
Englishmen quotes by Mark Twain
The word most consistently used to describe Kim Philby was "charm", that intoxicating, beguiling and occasionally lethal English quality. ~ Ben Macintyre
Englishmen quotes by Ben Macintyre
Fight well," he said distantly, "and remember you are Englishmen!"
"Welshmen," someone intervened. Sir Roger visibly flinched at that and then, without another word, led his three men-at-arms from the church. ~ Bernard Cornwell
Englishmen quotes by Bernard Cornwell
Back home, Huxley drew from this experience to compose a series of audacious attacks against the Romantic love of wilderness. The worship of nature, he wrote, is "a modern, artificial, and somewhat precarious invention of refined minds." Byron and Wordsworth could only rhapsodize about their love of nature because the English countryside had already been "enslaved to man." In the tropics, he observed, where forests dripped with venom and vines, Romantic poets were notably absent. Tropical peoples knew something Englishmen didn't. "Nature," Huxley wrote, "is always alien and inhuman, and occasionally diabolic." And he meant always: Even in the gentle woods of Westermain, the Romantics were naive in assuming that the environment was humane, that it would not callously snuff out their lives with a bolt of lightning or a sudden cold snap. After three days amid the Tuckamore, I was inclined to agree. ~ Robert Moor
Englishmen quotes by Robert Moor
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim & a Hindu only by accident of birth. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
Englishmen quotes by Jawaharlal Nehru
What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for. ~ Joseph Heller
Englishmen quotes by Joseph Heller
Thousands of Americans, Englishmen and Frenchmen have visited Germany during the months after the national revolution and were able to testify as eye-witnesses that there is no country in the world where law and order are better maintained than in present-day Germany. That there is no country in the world where person and property are held in better respect than in our own, but that there is perhaps also no country in the word where a more rigorous fight is put up against those who believe that they are free to let loose their lower instincts to the detriment of their fellow-beings. ~ Adolf Hitler
Englishmen quotes by Adolf Hitler
I don't hold it against you that you turned out Irish, either. I wasn't there to make Englishmen of you, and so it's Irish you are, by default. ~ Neal Stephenson
Englishmen quotes by Neal Stephenson
Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be. ~ James Agate
Englishmen quotes by James Agate
It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time to time and behave in certain fixed ways that even a baboon could master, like Englishmen dressing for dinner in the tropics. ~ Wilfrid
Englishmen quotes by Wilfrid
I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Englishmen quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
Old England is our home, and Englishmen are we; Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag in every sea. ~ Mary Howitt
Englishmen quotes by Mary Howitt
An Englishman fears contempt more than death. ~ Oliver Goldsmith
Englishmen quotes by Oliver Goldsmith
The Englishmen were clean and enthusiastic and decent and strong. They sang boomingly well. They had been singing together every night for years. The Englishmen had also been lifting weights and chinning themselves for years. Their bellies were like washboards. The muscles of their calves and upper arms were like cannonballs. They were all masters of checkers and chess and bridge and cribbage and dominoes and anagrams and charades and Ping-Pong and billiards, as well. ~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Englishmen quotes by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
These are Scottish lassies. They'll have been brought up to believe that Englishmen have long tails and cloven hooves."
"I'll be happy to prove there's no tail on this Sassenach," John said, grinning.
"Ah, but if they see you without breeches they'll know the other wee rumor about Sassenach men is true. They'd certain not have you then. ~ Lecia Cornwall
Englishmen quotes by Lecia Cornwall
I thinke it not amisse to forewarne you that you thrust as few wordes of many sillables into your verse as may be: and hereunto I might alledge many reasons: first the most auncient English wordes are of one sillable, so that the more monasyllables that you use, the truer Englishman you shall seeme, and the lesse you shall smell of the Inkehorne. ~ George Gascoigne
Englishmen quotes by George Gascoigne
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Englishmen quotes by George Bernard Shaw
[The] prevailing reason at this time is, that the Act of Parliament is against the Magna Charta, and the natural rights of Englishmen, and therefore, according to Lord Coke, null and void. ~ Thomas Hutchinson
Englishmen quotes by Thomas Hutchinson
It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable to domestic solacement. ~ Herman Melville
Englishmen quotes by Herman Melville
If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck. ~ Jackie Mason
Englishmen quotes by Jackie Mason
John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since! ~ Bertrand Russell
Englishmen quotes by Bertrand Russell
My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad. ~ Bill Forsyth
Englishmen quotes by Bill Forsyth
I am now in Gibraltar. It is a large place and there does not seem to be room in this letter, in which to express my feelings about Moors in bare legs and six thousand Red-coats and to hear Englishmen speak again. ~ Richard H. Davis
Englishmen quotes by Richard H. Davis
The right of ordinary citizens to possess weapons is the most extraordinary, most controversial, and least understood of those liberties secured by Englishmen and bequeathed to their American colonists. It lies at the very heart of the relationship between the individual and his fellows, and between the individual and his government. ~ Joyce Lee Malcolm
Englishmen quotes by Joyce Lee Malcolm
In the heart of any pious Jew, God is a Jew. Is your God an Englishman or an American? ~ Maurice Samuel
Englishmen quotes by Maurice Samuel
A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five! ~ Barbara Chase-Riboud
Englishmen quotes by Barbara Chase-Riboud
It is indeed a tricky name. It is often misspelt, because the eye tends to regard the "a" of the first syllable as a misprint and then tries to restore the symmetrical sequence by triplicating the "o"- filling up the row of circles, so to speak, as in a game of crosses and naughts. No-bow-cough. How ugly, how wrong. Every author whose name is fairly often mentioned in periodicals develops a bird-watcher's or caterpillar-picker's knack when scanning an article. But in my case I always get caught by the word "nobody" when capitalized at the beginning of a sentence. As to pronunciation, Frenchmen of course say Nabokoff, with the accent on the last syllable. Englishmen say Nabokov, accent on the first, and Italians say Nabokov, accent in the middle, as Russians also do. Na-bo-kov. A heavy open "o" as in "Knickerbocker". My New England ear is not offended by the long elegant middle "o" of Nabokov as delivered in American academies. The awful "Na-bah-kov" is a despicable gutterism. Well, you can make your choice now. Incidentallv, the first name is pronounced Vladeemer- rhyming with "redeemer"- not Vladimir rhyming with Faddimere (a place in England, I think). ~ Vladimir Nabokov
Englishmen quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with the handicap of having to think in English and transmit their thoughts chiefly in English. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Englishmen quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They abstained in the 1947 UN partition resolution ... They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s ... They always worked against us. They think the Arabs are the underdogs. ~ Shimon Peres
Englishmen quotes by Shimon Peres
We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Englishmen quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange. ~ Samuel Pepys
Englishmen quotes by Samuel Pepys
German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Englishmen quotes by George Bernard Shaw
There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been set forward by his assistance ... He is indeed a man born for the good of mankind, and for the honour of his country ... So I may thank God, that Dr. Wilkins was an Englishman, for wherever he had lived, there had been the chief seat of generous knowledge and true philosophy. ~ Robert Hooke
Englishmen quotes by Robert Hooke
Certainly, from where I stand, I'm not a specialist in wildly different walks and voices. But I find as much variation and nuance as what satisfies me in what I do. So, I don't find this particularly different. He has his own peculiarities. You're probably talking about a cluster of Englishmen in suits but I've done quite a big cluster of guys not in suits as well, which I've occupied myself with. So, I don't find that this is the one that stands out. ~ Colin Firth
Englishmen quotes by Colin Firth
The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else. ~ James Agate
Englishmen quotes by James Agate
May not and ought not the children of these fathers rightly say: Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness but they cried unto the Lord, and He heard their voice, and looked on their adversity, &c. Let them therefore praise the Lord, because He is good, and His mercies endure forever. Yea, let them which have been redeemed of the Lord, shew how He hath delivered them from the hand of the oppressor. When they wandered in the; desert wilderness out of the way, and found no city to dwell in, both hungry, and thirsty, their soul was overwhelmed in them. Let them confess before the Lord His loving kindness, and His wonderful works before the sons of men. ~ William Bradford
Englishmen quotes by William Bradford
Sassenach. He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection. ~ Diana Gabaldon
Englishmen quotes by Diana Gabaldon
The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Englishmen quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg
Englishmen quotes by Diane Von Furstenberg
The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt. ~ Raymond Chandler
Englishmen quotes by Raymond Chandler
It was at this time that some very pious Englishmen, known as the Early Fathers, who were being persecuted for not learning Avoirduroi, sailed away to America in a ship called the Mayfly; this is generally referred to as the Pilgrims' Progress and was one of rhe chief causes of America. ~ W.C. Sellar & R.J. Yeatman
Englishmen quotes by W.C. Sellar & R.J. Yeatman
There is no land like England,
Where'er the light of day be;
There are no hearts like English hearts,
Such hearts of oak as they be;
There is no land like England,
Where'er the light of day be:
There are no men like Englishmen,
So tall and bold as they be!
And these will strike for England,
And man and maid be free
To foil and spoil the tyrant
Beneath the greenwood tree. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Englishmen quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Why, I've seen Kentuckians who hated whiskey, Virginians who weren't descended from Pocahontas, Indianians who hadn't written a novel, Mexicans who didn't wear velvet trousers with silver dollars sewed along the seams, funny Englishmen, spendthrift Yankees, cold-blooded Southerners, narrow- minded Westerners, and New Yorkers who were too busy to stop for an hour on the street to watch a one-armed grocer's clerk do up cranberries in paper bags. Let a man be a man and don't handicap him with the label of any section. ~ O. Henry
Englishmen quotes by O. Henry
I'm an Englishman. What more can I say? ~ Alan Sugar
Englishmen quotes by Alan Sugar
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Englishmen quotes by George Bernard Shaw
To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity. ~ William Henry Harrison
Englishmen quotes by William Henry Harrison
So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish to free the slaves; and, especially, his not freeing the slaves in 'loyal' Kentucky and other United States areas or even in Confederate areas occupied by United States troops, such as New Orleans. ~ Sheldon Vanauken
Englishmen quotes by Sheldon Vanauken
I should add that there are undoubtedly charming Englishmen; I have often met them. But they are rarely our fellow-guests at hotels. ~ Guy De Maupassant
Englishmen quotes by Guy De Maupassant
If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Englishmen quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure ~ Anne Fadiman
Englishmen quotes by Anne Fadiman
They sat in an awkward, embarrassed silence for a moment, the way Englishmen are apt to do after sharing private thoughts. ~ Daniel Silva
Englishmen quotes by Daniel Silva
Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was. ~ Lafcadio Hearn
Englishmen quotes by Lafcadio Hearn
The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes. ~ Matthew Arnold
Englishmen quotes by Matthew Arnold
In other words, you're justifying the Hundred Years' War.'

'More or less. For it enabled our two peoples to become deeply interdependent, allowing the most fruitful of intellectual exchanges.'

'You mean, the French are "anglicized" without knowing it.'

'And the English have assimilated their Continental experience from that time much more than you think. But this is what I was leading up to: the Englishman is essentially a mystical being. And, because he's scrupulous, he's apprehensive. And therefore susceptible to everything that might be interpreted as a superhuman manifestation, whether it be a legend of esoteric significance - as in this case - or an event of peculiar resonance. Don't forget, all the official bodies in Paris - parliament, clergy, and especially the university - were in favour of the English at the period I'm talking about.'

'Of course! ~ Jacques Yonnet
Englishmen quotes by Jacques Yonnet
He tolerated his fellow Englishmen, but the Welsh were cabbage-farting dwarves, the Scots were scabby arse-suckers, and the French were shriveled turds. ~ Bernard Cornwell
Englishmen quotes by Bernard Cornwell
Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety nine out of a hundred will tell you that they would prefer to be Englishmen ~ Cecil Rhodes
Englishmen quotes by Cecil Rhodes
That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life. ~ Beatrice Webb
Englishmen quotes by Beatrice Webb
The foundation of England's greatness is that Englishmen hate to look fools. ~ Arnold Bennett
Englishmen quotes by Arnold Bennett
The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire. ~ Winston Churchill
Englishmen quotes by Winston Churchill
English Passengers, a first novel by Matthew Kneale, relates what follows when a group of Englishmen arrive in mid-nineteenth-century Tasmania with different purposes: to find the Garden of Eden, to prove the natives are less intelligent than the British, and to escape from British law. Kneale also describes the tragic life of a young Aboriginal whose experiences are shaped by the arrival of the British. ~ Nancy Pearl
Englishmen quotes by Nancy Pearl
Sometimes, however, the Gaelic blood asserts itself. The Frenchmen will then attack. But the French attacking spirit is like bottled lemonade. It lacks tenacity. The Englishmen, on the other hand, one notices that they are of Germanic blood. Sportsmen easily take to flying, and Englishmen see in flying nothing but a sport. ~ Manfred Von Richthofen
Englishmen quotes by Manfred Von Richthofen
IT IS A MISTAKE to suppose that all men, or at least all Englishmen, want to be free. On the contrary, if freedom entails responsibility, many of them want none of it. They would happily exchange their liberty for a modest (if illusory) security. ~ Theodore Dalrymple
Englishmen quotes by Theodore Dalrymple
An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet. ~ Jules Verne
Englishmen quotes by Jules Verne
Abortion ... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded convivial excesses, as certainly wrong, but so venial as scarcely to deserve censure. ~ William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Englishmen quotes by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
That Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me ~ Alexandre Dumas
Englishmen quotes by Alexandre Dumas
But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time. ~ George Saintsbury
Englishmen quotes by George Saintsbury
Any time a man comes along and says 'Indians' or 'Mexicans' or 'Englishmen' he's bound to be wrong. Each man is a person unto himself, and you'll find good, bad, and indifferent wherever you go. ~ Louis L'Amour
Englishmen quotes by Louis L'Amour
The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Englishmen quotes by George Bernard Shaw
He belonged to that inarticulate order of young Englishmen who dislike any form of emotion, and who find it peculiarly hard to explain their mental processes in words. ~ Agatha Christie
Englishmen quotes by Agatha Christie
Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing; put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it. ~ Josh Billings
Englishmen quotes by Josh Billings
For educated Americans like Joseph Ellis, Vietnam is a special hang-up. I am an Englishman of exactly the Vietnam generation, a couple of years younger than Ellis; indeed, for reasons too complicated to explain here, I was nearly drafted into the US army in 1965. I know many Americans of my own age and, as much to the point, my own class - journalists, publishers, lawyers. And I don't think I know one who served in Vietnam. ~ Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Englishmen quotes by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world. ~ John Amery
Englishmen quotes by John Amery
A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Englishmen quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor. ~ Marshall McLuhan
Englishmen quotes by Marshall McLuhan
When Richard created the Purple Gentian, the talent for ancient languages that had stunned his schoolmasters at Eton had come to his aid once again. While Sir Percy had pretended to be a fop, Richard bored the French into complacency with long lectures about antiquity. When Frenchmen demanded to know what he was doing in France, and Englishmen reproached him for fraternising with the enemy, Richard opened his eyes wide and proclaimed, 'But a scholar is a citizen of the world!' Then he quoted Greek at them. They usually didn't ask again. Even Gaston Delaroche, the Assistant Minister of Police, who had sworn in blood to be avenged on the Purple Gentian and had the tenacity of…well, of Richard's mother, had stopped snooping around Richard after being subjected to two particularly knotty passages from the Odyssey. ~ Lauren Willig
Englishmen quotes by Lauren Willig
Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Englishmen quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know how to form a proper queue? ~ Julian Barnes
Englishmen quotes by Julian Barnes
We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin rifle, similar to the one Annie Oakley had, and my husband has a .357 Magnum pistol. All those are locked up tight, of course. We have a couple of pellet guns that get more use than the real guns. ~ Bonnie Jo Campbell
Englishmen quotes by Bonnie Jo Campbell
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. ~ William Blake
Englishmen quotes by William Blake
In these latter days, knighthood was an honor few Englishmen escaped. ~ Arthur C. Clarke
Englishmen quotes by Arthur C. Clarke
I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true. ~ Josephine De La Baume
Englishmen quotes by Josephine De La Baume
Whenever Germans or Englishmen get together, they talk about the crops, the price of wool, or their personal affairs. But for some reason or other when we Russians get together we never discuss anything but women and abstract subjects
but especially women. ~ Anton Chekhov
Englishmen quotes by Anton Chekhov
I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called you "sir" and "madam," and so on. But after a week there, I began to feel wild. It was those ruddy English faces, so held in by duty, the sense of "what is done" and "what is not done," and always swigging tea and chirping, that made me want to scream like a hyena ~ Julia Child
Englishmen quotes by Julia Child
Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to be able to tell a good lie in answer to a charge. ~ Ford Madox Ford
Englishmen quotes by Ford Madox Ford
He was one of that great class of Englishmen who love their wives and trust them unquestioningly with their money and their honour, but are apt to hedge a little over their motor-cars. ~ Nevil Shute
Englishmen quotes by Nevil Shute
An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion. ~ George Chapman
Englishmen quotes by George Chapman
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom. mettle: spirited bottom: capacity to endure strain ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Englishmen quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The impossibility of keeping Englishmen sober ashore was a constant source of complaint, It was the great weakness of 16th century English infantrymen, whose performance when sober was admired even by the Spaniards. Already it was true, as it was to be for centuries, that many saw and despised the drunken sailor ashore, but few knew and admired him at his work afloat. ~ Nicholas Rodger
Englishmen quotes by Nicholas Rodger
I prefer to play English characters. They have a knack for dying well. I have made my career superbly playing well-died Englishmen. ~ Dacre Stoker
Englishmen quotes by Dacre Stoker
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