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Englishmen Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- [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…
- 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…
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- The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art… — William Blake
- An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion. — George Chapman
- Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale,… — George Henry Borrow
- It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public… — E. M. Forster
- Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot… — George Bernard Shaw
- The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to… — Louis Kronenberger
- An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order… — Charles Caleb Colton
- The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been… — Robert Hooke
- If a working class Englishman saw a bloke drive past in a Rolls-Royce, he'd say to himself "Come the social revolution and… — Kerry Packer
- When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the… — Donald Bradman
- Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky