I do no think human beings ever came through such a month as we have…We are weak, writing is difficult, but for… — Robert Falcon Scott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We are articulate, but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence.… — Robert Morley Copy Share Image
The effect of AIDS was like a war in a minute country. Like, in World War I, a whole generation of Englishmen… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
My mother and my father had very, very strong Scots accents. We were Australian, and in those days when I was young,… — George Ogilvie Copy Share Image
The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
To me the soul of an Indian seemed as precious as the soul of an Englishman, and the Gospel as much for… — James Gilmour Copy Share Image
“The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists.” — Neville Weston Copy Share Image
An Englishman never takes his collar off when he is writing. How can you expect him to show you his soul? — William McFee Copy Share Image
Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them. — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no land like England, Where'er the light of day be; There are no hearts like English hearts, Such hearts of… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.I want an Australian vision of arts… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
