“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention." — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
The fact that an Englishman has an Argentinian as an idol is very rare. I keep watching my [title-winning] goal against QPR… — Sergio Aguero Copy Share Image
The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I am by nature the most intolerant and insular Englishman... If you happen to be a person like that and you learn… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding Copy Share Image
I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes… — Josephine de La Baume Copy Share Image
When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the… — Donald Bradman Copy Share Image
My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with… — Hervey Allen Copy Share Image
It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
We know that England is crying for a leader, and that leader has emerged in the person of the greatest Englishman I… — William Joyce Copy Share Image
Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman… — Roland Joffe Copy Share Image
...So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles. — John Wycliffe Copy Share Image
There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution. — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
