quotes about Englishmen
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Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure
-- Anne Fadiman -
Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
-- Cecil RhodesSource : "The Life and Times of the Right Honourable Cecil John Rhodes 1853-1902, Volume 2". Book by Lewis Michell, New York and London: Mitchell Kennerly, p. 178, 1910.
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Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.
-- Colin Firth -
The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.
-- Edmund Barton -
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Even an Englishman was niver improved by bein' blown up.
-- Finley Peter Dunne -
An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
-- George ChapmanSource : 'Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany' (1654) act 1
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An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
-- George MikesSource : 'How to be an Alien' (1946) p. 44
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An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
-- Henry James -
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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 -
Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
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 -
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In the heart of any pious Jew, God is a Jew. Is your God an Englishman or an American?
-- Maurice Samuel -
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
-- Novalis -
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 -
I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense.
-- Teddy Thompson -
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To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.
-- William Henry Harrison -
In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
-- William Ralph Inge -
An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
-- Austin O'Malley