Englishman Quotes - page 6

New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches that, as an Englishman, I thought were from a bygone era or were a bit of poetic license with cop shows - the more you hang out with them, the more you realize how real that jargon is. (Theo James)
Goethe ... thought that the Englishman only observed without generalizing, whilst the German generalized without observing. View quote
Oscar Levy
In spite of my attack on Christianity: the Englishman who is a Christian is very much nearer to my heart than he who is not. View quote
Oscar Levy
Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale. View quote
Robert Falcon Scott
I am the last Englishman to rule India. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this The one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English. View quote
William Hazlitt
If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never! View quote
William Pitt the Younger
In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me. View quote
Colin Firth
All our subject provinces to me were not worth one dead Englishman. View quote
T. E. Lawrence
What I really think is that even the most stupid Englishman is about ten times smarter than the most stupid American. View quote
Madonna (entertainer)
If he is on God's side he is one of us, and it does not matter in the least whether he calls himself a Hindu or a Buddhist, a Christian or a Muhammadan, whether he is an Indian or an Englishman, a Chinaman or a Russian. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
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. View quote
Raymond Chandler
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
How can what an Englishman believes be heresy It is a contradiction in terms. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Even if England still continues to increase in civilization and opulence, she may yet, as other stronger states also rapidly augment, perhaps not long retain her present commanding position in the world; and it may be that in future ages the name of Palmerston will be synonymous with her greatest glory. From one generation of Englishman to another, the saying will be handed down: We are all proud of him. View quote
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
I have the principles of an Englishman, and I utter them without apprehension or reserve...this is not the language of faction; let it be tried by that criterion, by which alone we can distinguish what is factious, from what is not-by the principles of the English constitution. I have been bred up in these principles, and I know that when the liberty of the subject is invaded, and all redress denied him, resistance is justifiable...the constitution has its political Bible, by which if it be fairly consulted, every political question may, and ought to be determined. Magna Charta, the Petition of Rights and the Bill of Rights, form that code which I call the Bible of the English constitution. View quote
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
After this, who will say that an Englishman ought not to despise "all the nations of Europe?”. View quote
William Cobbett
[I myself will] never acknowledge an Englishman again for the rest of [my] life, nor wear an English Order on [my] chest. The fellows must be brought to their knees. View quote
Wilhelm II of Germany
One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class. View quote
Matthew Arnold
The tone in which an Englishman expresses anger would, in Italy, be only a mark of surprise. View quote
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
Like all weddings it had left the strange feeling of futility, the slight sense of depression that comes to English people who have tried, from their strong sense of tradition, to be festive and sentimental and in high spirits too early in the day. The frame of mind supposed to be appropriate to an afternoon wedding can only be genuinely experienced by an Englishman at two o'clock in the morning. (Ada Leverson)
I once wrote, in The Information, that an Englishman wouldn't bother to attend a reading even if the author in question was his favorite living writer, and also his long-lost brother - even if the reading was taking place next door. View quote
Martin Amis
England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God save the King than of stealing from a poor box. View quote
George Orwell
A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager. View quote
Jules Verne
An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch. View quote
Daniel Defoe