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I heard an Englishman, who had been long resident in America, declare that in following, in meeting, or in overtaking, in the street, on the… — Frances Trollope
The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody can beam and… — Karel Capek
About one thing the Englishman has a particularly strict code. If a bird says Cluk bik bik bik bik and caw you may kill it,… — Clement Freud
'English fair play' is a fine expression. It justifies the bashing of the puny draper's assistant by the big hairy blacksmith, and this to the… — Joseph Furphy
It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom. — Heinrich Heine
An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles. — George Bernard Shaw
When the Englishman speaks of national wealth he means the number of millionaires in the country. — Oswald Spengler
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. — A J Liebling
If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck. — Jackie Mason
An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one. — George Mikes
In other words, the problem of empire-building is essentially mystical. It must somehow foster the impression that a man is great in the degree that… — Felix Morley
The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here. — Kabir Bedi
Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five… — George Mikes
To me the soul of an Indian seemed as precious as the soul of an Englishman, and the Gospel as much for the Chinese as… — James Gilmour
The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman. — Edmund Barton
Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and… — Hervey Allen
GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night:… — William Shakespeare
The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else. — James Agate
Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually… — Roland Joffe
I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since. — Anne Stevenson
An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose. — A. P. Herbert
How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi. — William Makepeace Thackeray
Rugby is a game for the mentally deficient... That is why it was invented by the British. Who else but an Englishman could invent an… — Unknown Author
That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a… — John Amery

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