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

It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it. — Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Even an Englishman was niver improved by bein' blown up. — Finley Peter Dunne

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms. — George Bernard Shaw

There is a peculiarity in the countenance, as everybody knows, which, though it cannot be described, is sure to betray the Englishman. — George Henry Borrow

He was stiff as a drum-major and selfish as an Englishman, but a fairly conscientious pupil and a fairly upright man. — Anonymous

Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman. — James Joyce

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never! — William Pitt

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

In theory I rather admire the Spaniards for not sharing our Northern time-neurosis; but unfortunately I share it myself. — George Orwell

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern. — Benjamin Disraeli

An Englishman never takes his collar off when he is writing. How can you expect him to show you his soul? — William McFee

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life. — Beatrice Webb

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

The true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out. — E. M. Forster

If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck. — Jackie Mason

A traditional Englishman drinks tea to the point where his blood has long-since been replaced with an infusion of Ceylon, Assam, and Darjeeling. — Fennel Hudson

An Englishman hath three qualities, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his friend, nor to be dared by any. — John Lyly

The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. — George Bernard Shaw

The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman. — Junius

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

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. — Agatha Christie

The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose. — A.P. Herbert

No Englishman is ever fairly beaten — George Bernard Shaw

If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much. — Arsene Wenger

He asked nothing better than to kill an Englishman. He had accounts to settle with the bastards. — Ian Fleming

In the heart of any pious Jew, God is a Jew. Is your God an Englishman or an American? — Maurice Samuel

I have to think of all the possibilities, doctor. Even a crime of passion is possible.' 'Passion?' the doctor smiled. 'I am an Englishman. — Graham Greene

Sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy — F Scott Fitzgerald

I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman. — Billie Joe Armstrong

If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog. — George Bernard Shaw

I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since. — Anne Stevenson

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

There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea. — Madame De Stael

A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman. — Heinrich Heine

I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman. — John Cleese

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree. — George Bernard Shaw

I'm sure this Jesus will not do Either for Englishman or Jew. — William Blake

Sassenach. He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection. — Diana Gabaldon

The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman. — Edmund Barton

The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A True Born Englishman's a contradiction!
In speech and irony, in fact a fiction — Daniel Defoe

The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of ... the sacred and inviolable rights of private property. — William Blackstone

A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five! — Barbara Chase-Riboud

By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim & a Hindu only by accident of birth. — Jawaharlal Nehru

That Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me — Alexandre Dumas

Can anything be more boring than an upper-class Englishman? — Alice Walker

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life. — Cecil Rhodes

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course. — Evelyn Waugh

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. — David Lagercrantz

The Englishman respects your opinions, but he never thinks of your feelings. — Wilfrid Laurier

I feel," he replied, "like a sweaty Englishman molesting a naked statue in the presence of a complete stranger." - Adam — Mark Mills

An Englishman is the unfittest person on earth to argue another Englishman into slavery. — Edmund Burke

An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a bar. The barman looks at them and says: "Is this some kind of a joke?" — Frank Carson

An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time — Diana Gabaldon

I'm an Englishman. What more can I say? — Alan Sugar

He was born an Englishman and remained one for years. — Brendan Behan

Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic. — E.M. Delafield

Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is. — Ogden Nash

Oh, dear, she thought, this is probably more democracy than an Englishman can stand. — Carla Kelly

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. — A.J. Liebling

I'm an Englishman who did a film on Mogadishu, 'Black Hawk Down.' — Ridley Scott

Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment. — Colin Firth

An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him. — Alan Jay Lerner

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car? — George Bernard Shaw

I have always thought it bad manners to let one's fingers stay too long in another man's snuffbox. — Anna Freeman

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Silence can be defined as conversation with an Englishman — Heinrich Heine

Michael Powell always used to say 'I'm a typical Englishman'. He was and he wasn't. He was very cosmopolitan and spent a lot of time in Europe. — Thelma Schoonmaker

The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian. — Diane Von Furstenberg

An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them. — Pearl S. Buck

The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil. — Washington Irving

The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles. — Maxim Gorky

Athos was delighted to find he was going to fight an Englishman. We might say that was his dream. — Alexandre Dumas

That man made a deep impression on me; I shall never forget his countenance!" The Englishman smiled imperceptibly. — Alexandre Dumas

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 a Scotsman and I will always be one. — Sean Connery

Life isn't all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education. — Thomas Hughes

But to understand English is one thing; to understand an Englishman who talks is another. — Aleister Crowley

I'm an Englishman, after all, — Michael Dobbs

The last great Englishman is low. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

If the thing is feasible, the first to do it ought to be an Englishman. — Jules Verne

I spent a little more than five months in Vienna. I danced. I went ice skating and skiing. For strenuous exercise, I argued with an Englishman. — J.D. Salinger

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion. — George Chapman

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

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist. — Evelyn Waugh

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone. — Germaine Greer

Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is good ale. — George Henry Borrow

You can always depend on an Englishman to play the game — Agatha Christie

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch. — Daniel Defoe

No! The captain of the guard was that damned Englishman in disguise, and everyone of his soldiers aristos! The — Emmuska Orczy

The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else. — James Agate

A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is in bad taste, is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

To me the soul of an Indian seemed as precious as the soul of an Englishman, and the Gospel as much for the Chinese as for the European. — James Gilmour

Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France. — Henry David Thoreau

When the Englishman speaks of national wealth he means the number of millionaires in the country. — Oswald Spengler

A true Englishman never jokes when he has a stake depending on the matter. — Jules Verne