Englishman Quote by Jules Verne Download Open image “A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.” — Jules Verne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Englishman Serious Talking
Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
An Englishman bears with patience any ridicule which foreigners cast upon him. John Bull never laughs so loudly as when he laughs at himself;… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic. — E. M. Delafield Copy Share Image
If a playwright is funny, the English look for a serious message, and if he's serious, they look for a joke. — Sacha Guitry Copy Share Image
Brits and Australians have a similar sense of humour, obviously because of our links. It's more sort of jibbing and doesn't take itself too… — Kris Marshall Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
I just do my act. If people in England don't get my joke I make fun of myself for telling it. — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
“As I remarked before, the Asiatic elephant is smaller than the African, which is frequently twelve feet high, and its tusks are in proportion.… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
As long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Now, when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same! — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“My uncle” is the natives’ usual name for the tiger, they believing that the soul of each of their ancestors is lodged for eternity… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“Kâlagani evidently knew this thinly-peopled region perfectly, and guided us across it most admirably. On the 29th September our train began to ascend the… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way. — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“— Isola in vendita per contanti, più le spese, al miglior offerente! — andava ripetendo a perdifiato Dean Felporg, banditore dell'auction, in cui venivano… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
It is certain," exclaimed my uncle in a tone of triumph. "But silence, do you hear me? silence upon the whole subject; and let… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“I like to see an angry Englishman," said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I am a proud Englishman and proud every time I pull on the England shirt. — Dominic Calvert-Lewin Copy Share Image
As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark to the… — Charles Glover Barkla Copy Share Image
Within 18 months of my parents' marriage in 1900, my mother fell in love with an Englishman who would have described himself as a… — Paul Mellon Copy Share Image
We don't want to sign 10 or 11 year olds like the Englishman. There you can nearly talk about kidnapping. I would have moral doubts. — Karl-Heinz Rummenigge Copy Share Image
The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian. — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin sailed around the world for two years on the 'Beagle,' and he had quite a bit of interest in things like the… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
My father and mother emigrated to Canada in 1958, but there's nobody more English than an Englishman who no longer lives in England, and… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
