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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: Mahatma Gandhi George Bernard Shaw Lafcadio Hearn Billie Joe Armstrong Jawaharlal Nehru Samuel Johnson George Chapman William Blackstone F. Scott Fitzgerald Alan Sugar John Cleese Ray Davies George Henry Borrow William Henry Harrison Alfred Lord Tennyson Maurice Samuel Sean Connery E. B. White George Mikes William Ralph Inge Finley Peter Dunne Austin O'Malley Lytton Strachey Ogden Nash Cecil Rhodes Noel Fielding Teddy Thompson James Agate Anne Fadiman Oliver Goldsmith Bertrand Russell Novalis Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
George Chapman

12.
The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.
Washington Irving

13.
Englishmen have always loved Moliere.
Lytton Strachey

14.
In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
William Ralph Inge

15.
I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.
Ray Davies

16.
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

17.
An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.
Samuel Johnson

18.
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

19.
German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.
George Bernard Shaw

20.
I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense.
Teddy Thompson

21.
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

22.
Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure
Anne Fadiman

23.
I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman.
John Cleese

24.
I'm an Englishman. What more can I say?
Alan Sugar

25.
No Englishman is ever fairly beaten
George Bernard Shaw

26.
John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!
Bertrand Russell

27.
The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.
William Blackstone

28.
Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?
E. B. White

29.
When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.
Mahatma Gandhi

30.
It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

31.
Even an Englishman was niver improved by bein' blown up.
Finley Peter Dunne

32.
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

33.
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

34.
Englishmen must have an island.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

35.
The last great Englishman is low.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

36.
The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.
Mahatma Gandhi

37.
Englishmen do like to get in a dress, any excuse.
Noel Fielding

38.
We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.
Mahatma Gandhi