Englishmen Quote by Natasha Pulley

“I don't know if he was English but he spoke like it. He said good afternoon when everybody else said hardy weather or she…

— Patrick McCabe

“Though her grasp of English was modest and his Italian non-existent, their rapport was at once intuitive and intimate, founded more on physical attraction…

— Robert Radcliffe

“He cursed himself for having assumed the weather would be sunny. Perhaps it was the result of evolution, he thought--some adaptive gene that allowed…

— Helen Simonson

“I felt I was sitting in the midst of some surreal movie. Postwar Italian perhaps, only with more food and less sex.”

— Victoria Abbott

“In her mind, men were no different than droughty weather or a sudden burst of rainless storm.”

— Robert Olmstead

“Very helpful, I must say. Look at them in the eye and shout, and they understand every word..." (Mr. Warbeck in Sienna, talking about…

— Hilary McKay

“British rain was rarely that simple. For days on end, instead of falling, it simply hung around in the air like a wife waiting…

— Ruth Downie

“Only one sort of man is worse than an Italian when it comes to their appetite for women." "Oh? And what is that?" "A…

— Lisa Tawn Bergren

“Men are strange. It's almost unexpected to find they speak English.”

— Christopher Fry

“He was just one of those Englishmen who was always saying silly things to sound less pompous, and pompous things to sound less silly.”

— Edward St. Aubyn

“And you call yourself an English gentleman,' she exclaimed, savagely. 'No, that's a thing I've never done in all my life.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“It was all too much. I went to bed for three days, sick like an Austen or a Bronte character who'd foolishly wandered the…

— Heather Brittain Bergstrom