Best Englishmen Sayings
197 Englishmen quotes by 151 unique authors
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If we had to take a million immigrants in, say Zulus, next year, or Englishmen, and put them up in Virginia, what group would be…
— Pat Buchanan
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That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.
— Beatrice Webb
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Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to be able to tell a…
— Ford Madox Ford
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Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles.
— John Wycliffe
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I do no think human beings ever came through such a month as we have…We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake…
— Robert Falcon Scott
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It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time…
— Wilfrid
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If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.
— Jackie Mason
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An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
— George Mikes
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For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.
— Wilfrid Laurier
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In other words, the problem of empire-building is essentially mystical. It must somehow foster the impression that a man is great in the degree that…
— Felix Morley
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The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.
— Kabir Bedi
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Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five…
— George Mikes
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To me the soul of an Indian seemed as precious as the soul of an Englishman, and the Gospel as much for the Chinese as…
— James Gilmour
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An Englishman's car is his castle on wheels.
— Simon Jenkins
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The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.
— Edmund Barton
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Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun; The Japanese don't care to, the Chinese wouldn't dare to; Hindus and Argentines sleep firmly…
— Noel Coward
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My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.
— Bill Forsyth
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Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and…
— Hervey Allen
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GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night:…
— William Shakespeare
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The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.
— James Agate
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...So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish to free the…
— Sheldon Vanauken
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Tennis was a game invented by a woman named Samantha Tennis in 1839, in the village of Lobsworth, County of Kent, as a diversion for…
— Dan Jenkins
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I have no intention of watching undersized Englishmen perched on horses with matchstick legs race along courses planned to amuse Nell Gwynn.
— Gilbert Harding
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The Invitation, To Tom Highes What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when…
— Charles Kingsley
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What is unique about Drogheda is the very large number of Protestants in the garrison and the fact that it's commanded, by and large, by…
— Ronald Hutton
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