We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end. — Robert Falcon Scott Copy Share Image
An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five! — Barbara Chase-Riboud 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
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
Window-breaking, when Englishmen do it, is regarded as honest expression of political opinion. Window-breaking, when Englishwomen do it, is treated as a… — Emmeline Pankhurst 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
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
I have no intention of watching undersized Englishmen perched on horses with matchstick legs race along courses planned to amuse Nell Gwynn. — Gilbert Harding 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
Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to be able… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
In the early days of the December that my father was to die, my younger brother brought me the news that I… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If we claim heritage in Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, we also acknowledge that it was for liberties guaranteed Englishmen by sacred charters… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin rifle, similar… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I thinke it not amisse to forewarne you that you thrust as few wordes of many sillables into your verse as may… — George Gascoigne Copy Share Image
If a working class Englishman saw a bloke drive past in a Rolls-Royce, he'd say to himself "Come the social revolution and… — Kerry Packer Copy Share Image
“Very few Englishmen ever ask a woman anything about themselves. They choose instead to lecture their dinner neighbors on a new and… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
“They were excessively pleased with the Campo Santa Maria Formosa. They thought the façades of the houses very magnificent – they could… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Virtually the entire inflow was therefore Asiatic, and all but three or four thousand of that inflow originated from the Indian subcontinent...… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
[Thomas Henry] Huxley, I believe, was the greatest Englishman of the Nineteenth Century—perhaps the greatest Englishman of all time. When one thinks… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“For a moment or two before the spell took effect, he was aware of all the sounds around him: rain splashing on… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt… — George Orwell Copy Share Image