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Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed… — Charles Babbage
As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world, even so is… — Mahatma Gandhi
Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them.… — Ian Fleming
What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity. — George Bernard Shaw
In the heart of any pious Jew, God is a Jew. Is your God an Englishman or an American? — Maurice Samuel
Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's… — Agatha Christie
Italianate Englishmen are incarnate devils ... for they first lustfully condemn God, then scornfully mock his word, and also spitefully hate and hurt all the… — Roger Ascham
If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by… — George Bernard Shaw
An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards. — Austin O'Malley
Nothing commends a radical change to an Englishman more than the belief that it is really conservative. — H. A. L. Fisher
There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this… — John Boorman
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him. — George Bernard Shaw
Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis… — George Frideric Handel
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
All Englishmen talk as if they've got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated from the pips. — W.C. Fields
The depressing thing about an Englishman's traditional love of animals is the dishonesty thereof ... Get a barbed hook into the upper lip of a… — Clement Freud
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
Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them. — 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

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