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