Doe Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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

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

There's nothing the British like better than a bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered.

— Melvyn Bragg

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was…

— Sean Connery

You English are like mad bulls... you see red everywhere! What on earth has come over you, to heap on us such suspicion as…

— Wilhelm II

You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.

— James D. Watson

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

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also…

— Pete Townshend

Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of…

— Ian Fleming

As a nation, we English tend to be self-deprecating, looking down on ourselves. We're insular but also flexible, whereas in Germany, it's a case…

— Simon Rattle

Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to…

— George Orwell