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Englishmen Quotes

1.
Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
Cecil Rhodes

Recall that you are a British citizen, and have thereby been awarded the grand prize of human existence.
Authors on Englishmen Quotes: George Bernard Shaw Mahatma Gandhi Ogden Nash Cecil Rhodes Lytton Strachey Teddy Thompson Noel Fielding James Agate Anne Fadiman Oliver Goldsmith Bertrand Russell Ralph Waldo Emerson Novalis Washington Irving Lafcadio Hearn Billie Joe Armstrong Samuel Johnson Jawaharlal Nehru George Chapman William Blackstone F. Scott Fitzgerald Alan Sugar Ray Davies John Cleese William Henry Harrison George Henry Borrow Alfred Lord Tennyson Sean Connery E. B. White Maurice Samuel William Ralph Inge George Mikes Finley Peter Dunne
2.
I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.
Sean Connery

3.
An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
George Mikes

4.
I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
Jawaharlal Nehru

5.
To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.
William Henry Harrison

6.
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
Novalis

7.
In the heart of any pious Jew, God is a Jew. Is your God an Englishman or an American?
Maurice Samuel

8.
An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
Austin O'Malley

9.
An Englishman fears contempt more than death.
Oliver Goldsmith

10.
I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
Billie Joe Armstrong

11.
Englishmen have always loved Moliere.
Lytton Strachey

12.
In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
William Ralph Inge

13.
An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
George Chapman

14.
The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.
Washington Irving

15.
Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.
Ogden Nash

16.
I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.
Ray Davies

17.
I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense.
Teddy Thompson

18.
There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.
George Bernard Shaw

19.
An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.
Samuel Johnson

20.
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

21.
German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.
George Bernard Shaw

22.
No Englishman is ever fairly beaten
George Bernard Shaw

23.
Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure
Anne Fadiman

24.
I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman.
John Cleese

25.
I'm an Englishman. What more can I say?
Alan Sugar

26.
Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?
E. B. White

27.
John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!
Bertrand Russell

28.
The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.
William Blackstone

29.
The last great Englishman is low.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

30.
The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.
Mahatma Gandhi

31.
Englishmen do like to get in a dress, any excuse.
Noel Fielding

32.
We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.
Mahatma Gandhi

33.
When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.
Mahatma Gandhi

34.
It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

35.
Even an Englishman was niver improved by bein' blown up.
Finley Peter Dunne

36.
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

37.
There is a peculiarity in the countenance, as everybody knows, which, though it cannot be described, is sure to betray the Englishman.
George Henry Borrow

38.
Englishmen must have an island.
F. Scott Fitzgerald