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Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life. — Cecil Rhodes
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. — George Bernard Shaw
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car? — George Bernard Shaw
The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers… — Alexis de Tocqueville
You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God.… — William Butler Yeats
So the books for the Englishman, as he listened intently or not, had gaps of plot like sections of a road washed out by storms,… — Michael Ondaatje
Spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me… — Henry David Thoreau
There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been told that the… — Clifford Geertz
that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me — Alexandre Dumas
The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you? — Kurt Vonnegut
A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager. — Jules Verne
And do you know, do you know that mankind can live without the Englishman, it can live without Germany, it can live only too well… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive… — P.G. Wodehouse
Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection. — Diana Gabaldon
An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time — Diana Gabaldon
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist. — Evelyn Waugh
Cheat? Good heavens, this is an amateur cricket match amongst leading prep schools, I'm an Englishman and a schoolmaster supposedly setting an example to his… — Stephen Fry
...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion and… — Baroness Orczy
I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover innkeepers, postillions, officials,… — Susanna Clarke
Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman. — James Joyce
As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark to the Nobel… — Charles Glover Barkla
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
In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class… — Colin Firth

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