Englishman Quotes · Page 3

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.

— Daniel Defoe

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

Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.

— E. M. Delafield

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I haven't seen an Englishman take a blow like that since Hugh Grant. - Frank the sportscaster

— South Park

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

— George Bernard Shaw

What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

— George Bernard Shaw

“If "Manners maketh man," as someone said Then he's the hero of the day It takes a man to suffer ignorance and…

— Sting

It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a…

— Jules Verne

The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible,…

— John Updike

I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with…

— Anthony Trollope

We don't want to sign 10 or 11 year olds like the Englishman. There you can nearly talk about kidnapping. I would…

— Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

You can always tell a man's nationality by introducing him to a beautiful girl. An Englishman shakes her hand; a Frenchman kisses…

— Anna Karina

Charles Darwin sailed around the world for two years on the 'Beagle,' and he had quite a bit of interest in things…

— Seth Shostak

When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general…

— Aubrey Beardsley

“An Englishman spoke to him from across the aisle but he found something antipathetic in the English lately. England was like a…

— Anonymous

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably…

— George Bernard Shaw

“You’re an Englishman and you’re allergic to tea? Isn’t that against the law or something?”

— Jeri Westerson

“He was thrown from his horse, and Englishman never falls off. ( roughly)”

— R.F. Delderfield

“The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.”

— Michael Ondaatje

The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

— Junius

You are an Englishman, and have subsequently drawn the greatest prize in the lottery of life.

— Cecil Rhodes

“Christ was a sort of an Englishman, and Englishmen did not, as a rule, refuse to do their jobs .”

— Ford Madox Ford

“He was stiff as a drum-major and selfish as an Englishman, but a fairly conscientious pupil and a fairly upright man. ”

— Anonymous

The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian.

— Diane von Furstenberg

Whenever I play Shakespeare, I keep thinking, 'how did this Englishman know so much about me?'

— John Kani

I was an Englishman in New York playing a New Yorker... I had to be very careful with my accent.

— Adrian Lester

Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.

— Colin Firth

Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy!

— Tom Metzger

The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.

— George Bernard Shaw

If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.

— Jackie Mason

I'm a Jew. I think of myself as a Jew first and Englishman second.

— Patrick Marber

A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

— Jules Verne

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

— Washington Irving

that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me

— Alexandre Dumas

“The Englishman's story seemed unlikely; there had to be a God. Who would have made everything otherwise?”

— Donal Ryan

An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet.

— Jules Verne

“The American,” he wrote, “is the Englishman left to himself.”

— Daniel Hannan

Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a…

— Anonymous