Englishman Quotes · Page 3

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

— Daniel Hannan

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

— Diane von Furstenberg

“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

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

— Adrian Lester

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

— John Kani

An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't…

— Pearl S. Buck

“second time you have made that observation. If one puts forward an idea to a true Englishman--always a rash thing to do--he…

— Oscar Wilde

The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he'll come sleep in your closet…

— Truman Capote

For a brief moment, Ian Fleming made being an Englishman seem sexy, even to the French. He should have been awarded a…

— Michael Korda

The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones,…

— Maxim Gorky

I love the English spirit because when I was a player, I was an Englishman: I was fighting, and you had to…

— Claudio Ranieri

As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark…

— Charles Glover Barkla

I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“evening, they began to think that although he could never hope to be an Englishman, still it would be hard to visit…

— Charles Dickens

The Englishman's strong point is his vigorous insularity; that of the American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes has its…

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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

— Tom Metzger

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

— Colin Firth

“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

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

— Cecil Rhodes

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

— Junius

I'm an Englishman who did a film on Mogadishu, 'Black Hawk Down.'

— Ridley Scott

A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.

— Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.

— Cecil Rhodes

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.

— George Mikes

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

— Daniel Defoe

How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

We have such respect for the English that, when an Englishman says Hollywood sucks, people listen.

— Elaine May

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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— E. M. Delafield

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

I'm French. I have not become an Englishman. I have the impression of living on an island called Arsenal. If you fancy…

— Arsene Wenger