Englishmen Quotes

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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice… — William Blake
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, that is good… — 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 school that feeling… — 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 pretend they have… — 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 be considered a… — Louis Kronenberger
An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but… — 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 set forward by… — 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 we'll take that… — Kerry Packer
When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust. — Donald Bradman
Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded convivial excesses, as… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest against our share in the… — Bertrand Russell
Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought. — William Butler Yeats
[The] prevailing reason at this time is, that the Act of Parliament is against the Magna Charta, and the natural rights of Englishmen, and therefore,… — Thomas Hutchinson
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
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree. — George Bernard Shaw
I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere. — Ray Davies
When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come… — Ray Davies

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