Quotes About Englishman

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.

From this humiliating self-estimate (of cowardice) Gandhi escaped by substituting for the Englishman's courage, which begins in self-assertion and proceeds to physical mastery, the courage which begins with self-control and proceeds to the nonviolent affirmation of truth.

He spoke a refined and formal kind of English that did not seem wholly natural, as though at some point it had been applied to him carefully with a brush, like paint. I asked him what his nationality was. 'I was sent to an English boarding school at the age of seven,' he replied. 'You might say I have the mannerisms of an Englishman but the heart of a Greek. I am told,' he added, 'it would be much worse the other way around.

A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

Only an Englishman of Morgan's class could call a queer suicide with overtones of financial wrongdoing a "muddle".

I like to see an angry Englishman," said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.

England is the pinnacle of any Englishman's career.

Some Englishman once said marriage is a long dull meak with pudding served first

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.

What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Nothing commends a radical change to an Englishman more than the belief that it is really conservative.

I am sure this Jesus will not doEither for Englishman or Jew.

If you wanted to show that someone was a good chap, the essence of a good and clean Englishman, you would say that he was an athlete.

GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night: I thank my God for my humility.

The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.

We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution.

How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.

The fraudulent electrical utility company in conjunction with the corrupt sheriff taught me that an Englishman's home is not his castle

The scene he witnessed there in the twilight depths of the African jungle was burned forever into the Englishman's brain.

For me, earnestness is the greatest crime an Englishman can commit.

Where'er I wander, boast of this I can,Though banish'd, yet a true-born Englishman.

It was as close as an aristocratic Englishman could come to expressing real emotion, but it was enough for the princess. She pressed his hand.