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Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually… — Roland Joffe
The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen. — Winston Churchill
I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since. — Anne Stevenson
An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose. — A. P. Herbert
How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi. — William Makepeace Thackeray
Rugby is a game for the mentally deficient... That is why it was invented by the British. Who else but an Englishman could invent an… — Unknown Author
That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a… — John Amery
In the early days of the December that my father was to die, my younger brother brought me the news that I was a Jew.… — Christopher Hitchens
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy! — Tom Metzger
I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a… — Sean Connery
Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone… — John Amery
What beefsteak is to Argentina, flamenco to Spain, cool reserve and self-control in all situations to an Englishman, what vodka is to a Russian and… — George Mikes
Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment. — Colin Firth
The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire. — Winston Churchill
An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't… — Mark Twain
I think American men are more conscious of putting up a good impression. There's more of an earthiness to Englishmen. But Americans aren't afraid to… — Sienna Miller
This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry...I say to myself every day. What is going on while we sit here,… — Winston Churchill
Old England is our home, and Englishmen are we; Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag in every sea. — Mary Howitt
But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in… — George Saintsbury
It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what… — Samuel Johnson
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
No Englishman is ever fairly beaten — George Bernard Shaw
Silence can be defined as conversation with an Englishman — Heinrich Heine
Englishmen have always loved Moliere. — Lytton Strachey

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