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Englishman Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- 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…
- 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…
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- An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion. — George Chapman
- Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale,… — George Henry Borrow
- It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public… — E. M. Forster
- Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot… — George Bernard Shaw
- The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to… — Louis Kronenberger
- An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order… — Charles Caleb Colton
- The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been… — Robert Hooke
- 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
- Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest against our… — Bertrand Russell
- The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property. — William Blackstone
- How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms. — George Bernard Shaw