Englishmen Quote by John le Carré

“I am not an Englishman, nor are you. Nor can we ever be, regardless of our foxtrots, our straight bats, our Jolly Goods and…

— Kamila Shamsie

“I realized with an unexpected shock that without either ale or female within easy reach, Ned was somehow incomplete. Why hadn't I noticed that…

— Alan Bradley

“...there's me, Gurth, Dotti, Grenn an' about a hunnerd shrews. If'n we wants to lie 'round for a day or two then you'll find…

— Brian Jacques

“George is a goblin who looks like a young boy. He is explaining to his friend Lout, an ogre, that he’s really older than…

— Bob Craton

“I’m his subject, and he is my High Lord—” “You are no one’s subject.” I went rigid at the flash of teeth, the smoke-like…

— Sarah J. Maas

“He was thrown from his horse, and Englishman never falls off. ( roughly)”

— R.F. Delderfield

“Excuse me, Mr Tall-and-Good-looking Wolfman, but can you help the English midget reach the sauce?’ I think not.”

— Joss Stirling

“What do they know of England who only England know?”

— Rudyard Kipling Alice Kipling his mother

“William was dazed. The entire conversation had been too overwhelming to believe, but believe it he did. He knew the earl well enough to…

— Kathryn Le Veque

“The foundation of England's greatness is that Englishmen hate to look fools.”

— Arnold Bennett

“An English man-at-arms had his helmet split open and his skull with it, so that he rode wavering from the fight, blood pouring down…

— Bernard Cornwell

Once upon a time the English knew who they were.

— Anna Pavlova