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An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say. — Samuel Johnson
Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton. — E. M. Delafield
Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is. — Ogden Nash
The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible, like a saint's… — John Updike
When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good.… — Henry Fielding
The Englishman respects your opinions, but he never thinks of your feelings. — Wilfrid Laurier
The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by… — R. H. Tawney
Sometimes, however, the Gaelic blood asserts itself. The Frenchmen will then attack. But the French attacking spirit is like bottled lemonade. It lacks tenacity. The… — Manfred von Richthofen
I am the last Englishman to rule in India. — Jawaharlal Nehru
I cannot believe that the killing of 2,000 Englishmen at New Orleans qualifies a person for the various difficult and complicated duties of the Presidency. — Henry Clay
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim & a Hindu only by accident of birth. — Jawaharlal Nehru
One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as… — Matthew Arnold
If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country.… — Napoleon Bonaparte
The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us… — Matthew Arnold
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years. — Brendan Behan
When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs. — Mahatma Gandhi
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man… — George Bernard Shaw
The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman. — George Bernard Shaw
The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian. — Diane von Furstenberg
Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone. — Germaine Greer
An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch. — Daniel Defoe
The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern. — Benjamin Disraeli
The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French… — Katharine Hepburn
In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted. — William Ralph Inge
A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of… — Joseph Lancaster

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