Englishmen Quote by John Lyly

Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.

— Mary Ellen Chase

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.

— A. P. Herbert

Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

— Karel Capek

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only comfortable

— George Bernard Shaw

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

— James Agate

Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy,…

— Joseph Addison

“He is an Englishman, and in the midst of national and professional prejudices, unsoftened by cultivation, retains some of the noblest endowments of humanity.”

— Mary Shelley

An Englishman, methinks,--not to speak of other European nations,--habitually regards himself merely as a constituent part of theEnglish nation; he is a member of…

— Henry David Thoreau

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

— George Bernard Shaw

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those…

— Samuel Johnson

“...you could see the man being formed, and kew the man to be your good and true friend, as long as life - the…

— Brian Doyle