Englishmen Quote by William Penn Download Open image “You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right.” — William Penn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Englishmen Giving Mind Privilege
If I was English would I be respected a bit more? Yes, I think so, that's the truth. — Kevin Kilbane Copy Share Image
The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
You English are like mad bulls... you see red everywhere! What on earth has come over you, to heap on us such suspicion as… — Wilhelm II Copy Share Image
Speaking and writing English perfectly should not be a privilege. To those who try to politicize this matter, I tell them now, do not… — Luis Fortuno Copy Share Image
I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was… — Sean Connery Copy Share Image
Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority complex the… — Pierre Daninos Copy Share Image
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please… — William Penn Copy Share Image
All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is… — William Penn Copy Share Image
By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine;… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective. — William Penn Copy Share Image
We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice. — William Penn Copy Share Image
It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the… — William Penn 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