Best Englishman Sayings

135 Englishman quotes by 106 unique authors

In the early days of the December that my father was to die, my younger brother brought me the news that I was a Jew.… — Christopher Hitchens
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy! — Tom Metzger
I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a… — Sean Connery
Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone… — John Amery
What beefsteak is to Argentina, flamenco to Spain, cool reserve and self-control in all situations to an Englishman, what vodka is to a Russian and… — George Mikes
Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment. — Colin Firth
An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't… — Mark Twain
Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the… — Robert Falcon Scott
No Englishman is ever fairly beaten — George Bernard Shaw
Silence can be defined as conversation with an Englishman — Heinrich Heine
It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not… — Jules Verne
A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his travels. Why not… — Henry David Thoreau
Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America? — Elwyn Brooks White
If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the… — George Bernard Shaw
The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other… — William Hazlitt
I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy. — Charles Dickens
The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil. — Washington Irving
[V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is good to be on your guard against an Englishman who speaks French perfectly; he is very likely to be a card-sharper or an… — W. Somerset Maugham
An Englishman never takes his collar off when he is writing. How can you expect him to show you his soul? — William McFee
The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles. — Maxim Gorky
The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in… — Jerome K. Jerome

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