Ancestry Quote by George Bernard Shaw

My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.

— Mahatma Gandhi

An Englishmans way of speaking absolutely classifies him.

— Alan Jay Lerner

“While all this goes on, the English remain staunch believers in equality. Equality is a notion the English have given to humanity. Equality means…

— George Mikes

An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.

— Alan Jay Lerner

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in…

— George Bernard Shaw

The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible, like a…

— John Updike

Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.

— E. M. Delafield

Britain is not homogenous; it was never a society without conflict. The English fought tooth and nail over everything we know of as English…

— Stuart Hall

One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority complex the…

— Pierre Daninos

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 English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that…

— D. H. Lawrence

The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

— Agnes Repplier