"The Englishman respects your opinions, but he never……" — Wilfrid Laurier
"The Englishman respects your opinions, but he never thinks of your feelings."
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Wilfrid Laurier
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21 Quotes by Wilfrid Laurier
Wilfrid Laurier has 21 quotes on this site.
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Canada is free and freedom is its nationality,
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It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves.
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Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.
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The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.
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Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to…
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I have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honourable gentlemen opposite…
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I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith…
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For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.
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I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our…
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What is hateful is not rebellion but the despotism which induces the rebellion; what is hateful are not rebels but…
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If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch.
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It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty…
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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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Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest…
— Bertrand Russell
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The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of…
— William Blackstone
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How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.
— George Bernard Shaw
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