Englishmen Quote by Lytton Strachey Download Open image “Englishmen have always loved Moliere.” — Lytton Strachey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Englishmen
We know that England is crying for a leader, and that leader has emerged in the person of the greatest Englishman I have ever… — William Joyce Copy Share Image
Juventus fans know a lot about him, but in Italy we love Mourinho for his success. — Giorgio Chiellini Copy Share Image
I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain. — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes, their difficulties,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally,… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention." — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
The fact that an Englishman has an Argentinian as an idol is very rare. I keep watching my [title-winning] goal against QPR and every… — Sergio Aguero Copy Share Image
The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I am by nature the most intolerant and insular Englishman... If you happen to be a person like that and you learn from evidence… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding Copy Share Image
I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are… — Josephine de La Baume Copy Share Image
When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust. — Donald Bradman Copy Share Image
My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
