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I can be described as many things, but no description of me is complete without saying 'Englishman.' My parents were from Liverpool and emigrated to… — Mike Myers
And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They abstained in the… — Shimon Peres
If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my… — William Pitt
Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life. — Cecil Rhodes
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. — George Bernard Shaw
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car? — George Bernard Shaw
The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers… — Alexis de Tocqueville
You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God.… — William Butler Yeats
What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans… — Joseph Heller
They were adored by the Germans, who thought they were exactly what Englishmen ought to be. They made war look stylish and reasonable, and fun...… — Kurt Vonnegut
If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know how to form… — Julian Barnes
This book will prove the following ten facts: 1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there. 2. Pigs have… — Diana Wynne Jones
So the books for the Englishman, as he listened intently or not, had gaps of plot like sections of a road washed out by storms,… — Michael Ondaatje
Spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me… — Henry David Thoreau
There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been told that the… — Clifford Geertz
that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me — Alexandre Dumas
The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you? — Kurt Vonnegut
A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager. — Jules Verne
But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad… — Jane Austen
And do you know, do you know that mankind can live without the Englishman, it can live without Germany, it can live only too well… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive… — P.G. Wodehouse
Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure — Anne Fadiman
Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection. — Diana Gabaldon

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