Englishmen Quote by Vilhjalmur Stefansson

“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

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

— Mahatma Gandhi

By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.

— Charles Dickens