"An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened,……" — George Chapman

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• Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh… — 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… — E. M. Forster
• Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them.… — George Bernard Shaw
• The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American… — Louis Kronenberger
• An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to… — 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… — Robert Hooke
• If a working class Englishman saw a bloke drive past in a Rolls-Royce, he'd say to himself "Come the social… — Kerry Packer
• Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest… — Bertrand Russell
• The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of… — William Blackstone
• How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms. — George Bernard Shaw
• Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree. — George Bernard Shaw

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