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It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not… — Jules Verne
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… — Henry David Thoreau
Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America? — Elwyn Brooks White
If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the… — George Bernard Shaw
Englishmen must have an island. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor. — Marshall McLuhan
The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other… — William Hazlitt
I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy. — Charles Dickens
The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil. — Washington Irving
At twelve noon, The natives swoon And no further work is doneBut mad dogs and Englishmen, Go out in the midday sun. — Noel Coward
[V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is good to be on your guard against an Englishman who speaks French perfectly; he is very likely to be a card-sharper or an… — W. Somerset Maugham
An Englishman never takes his collar off when he is writing. How can you expect him to show you his soul? — William McFee
But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange. — Samuel Pepys
The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles. — Maxim Gorky
I built the ideal house down in the Caribbean. All Englishmen dream of leaving the rain of England and getting a place in the sun… — Robin Leach
The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in… — Jerome K. Jerome
Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once… — James Agate
Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort… — Henry Lawson
We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin rifle, similar to the one… — Bonnie Jo Campbell
New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches that, as an… — Theo James
You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course. — Evelyn Waugh
Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic. — E. M. Delafield

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