Englishmen Quote by Washington Irving

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in…

— George Bernard Shaw

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in…

— George Bernard Shaw

...and was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after more than…

— R. H. Tawney

He who is accustomed to evil is offended by good.

— Vikrant Parsai

A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.

— Voltaire

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to be considered…

— Louis Kronenberger

The Englishman, be it noted, seldom resorts to violence; when he is sufficiently goaded he simply opens up, like the oyster, and devours his…

— Henry Miller

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

— George Bernard Shaw

There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The Englishman's strong point is his vigorous insularity; that of the American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes has its perils. The…

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

“Fortunately, as human history has shown, it is not unusual for good to come of evil, less is said about the evil that can…

— Jose Saramago

An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.

— Alan Jay Lerner