Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy! — Tom Metzger Copy Share Image
Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman. — James Joyce 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
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
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
“Christ was a sort of an Englishman, and Englishmen did not, as a rule, refuse to do their jobs .” — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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
The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
God is decreeing to begin some newand great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Within 18 months of my parents' marriage in 1900, my mother fell in love with an Englishman who would have described himself… — Paul Mellon Copy Share Image
We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would… — Robert Falcon Scott 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
The Englishman foxtrots as he fox-hunts, with all his being, through thickets, through ditches, over hedges, through chiffons, through waiters, over saxophones,… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning… — Matthew Arnold 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
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
But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Some years ago I adjourned with a friend to a nearby schoolyard net for a recreational hit. On the way, we exchanged… — Gideon Haigh Copy Share Image
In other words, the problem of empire-building is essentially mystical. It must somehow foster the impression that a man is great in… — Felix Morley 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
[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
“The ring which you are holding, my friend, is identical to that one. I had it cut according to the model of… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
Thousands of Americans, Englishmen and Frenchmen have visited Germany during the months after the national revolution and were able to testify as… — Adolf Hitler 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
“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
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