An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What beefsteak is to Argentina, flamenco to Spain, cool reserve and self-control in all situations to an Englishman, what vodka is to… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
This book will prove the following ten facts: 1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there.… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry...I say to myself every day. What is going on while… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and… — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
to the Indian, politics are what the weather is to an Englishman. Politics are an introduction to a stranger on a train,… — Santha Rama Rau Copy Share Image
Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is because the cosmos is meaningless that we must secure our individual illusions of values, direction, and interest by upholding the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen… — Robert Falcon Scott 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
[The] prevailing reason at this time is, that the Act of Parliament is against the Magna Charta, and the natural rights of… — Thomas Hutchinson Copy Share Image
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is unique about Drogheda is the very large number of Protestants in the garrison and the fact that it's commanded, by… — Ronald Hutton Copy Share Image
I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun; The Japanese don't care to, the Chinese wouldn't dare to; Hindus and… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
American gentlemen are a cross between English and French men, and yet really altogether like neither. They are more refined and modest… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image