Michael Powell always used to say 'I'm a typical Englishman'. He was and he wasn't. He was very cosmopolitan and spent a… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
Sometimes, however, the Gaelic blood asserts itself. The Frenchmen will then attack. But the French attacking spirit is like bottled lemonade. It… — Manfred von Richthofen Copy Share Image
Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nothing commends a radical change to an Englishman more than the belief that it is really conservative. — H. A. L. Fisher Copy Share Image
“Old Campion had once said he believed - he positively believed, with shudders - that Christopher desired to live in the spirit… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the dark days and darker nights when England stood alone-and most men save Englishmen despaired of England's life-he [Churchill] mobilized the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches… — Theo James Copy Share Image
I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do… — William Blake Copy Share Image
In England, the sovereignty resides exclusively in the person or individual who is king. All Englishmen are his subjects. And the highest… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
Sherry...a silly, sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of… — George Henry Borrow Copy Share Image
[V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A seashell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America? — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Louise de Keroualle, being a Frenchwoman from the French court, was feared by most Englishmen for how she might influence their king,… — Susan Holloway Scott Copy Share Image
People were intrinsically selfish, and many hated the idea of a woman in charge of the Institute. They would not put themselves… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I have to laugh when the English claim they are such a wonderful nation. Everyone knows that Englishmen are really Germans, that… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
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