"Leave three Englishmen in a room and they……" — Julian Fellowes
"Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them."
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63 Quotes by Julian Fellowes
Julian Fellowes has 63 quotes on this site.
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Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have…
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We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves.
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One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But…
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In my defence I can only say that her past, too, like mine, like everyone's in fact, was a locked…
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If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.
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I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.
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I can be as contrary as I choose.
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The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms.
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There are many nations that have perfected a particular room. You know, you have the French drawing-room, the Austrian ball…
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I think other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you?
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Today, people often make the American mistake of confusing acquaintances with friends. The former are there to share life's pleasures;…
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School visits are something I do fairly often: I always say to the students that somebody has got to end…
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More Englishmen Quotes
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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire…
— William Blake
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An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
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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
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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
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Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them.…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American…
— Louis Kronenberger
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An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or…
— Robert Hooke
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If a working class Englishman saw a bloke drive past in a Rolls-Royce, he'd say to himself "Come the social…
— Kerry Packer
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When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them…
— Donald Bradman
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Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last…
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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