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We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange. — Samuel Pepys

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact. — Oliver Cromwell

German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen. — George Bernard Shaw

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business. — Wilfrid Laurier

The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet. — George Bernard Shaw

Malcolm Muggeridge who said that the only real Englishmen left in the world were to be found in India. — Ruskin Bond

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island. — Novalis

Englishmen did not speak to strangers on trains ... — Ken Follett

The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire. — Winston Churchill

When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs. — Mahatma Gandhi

Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land. — Mahatma Gandhi

I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true. — Josephine De La Baume

We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end. — Robert Falcon Scott

They sat in an awkward, embarrassed silence for a moment, the way Englishmen are apt to do after sharing private thoughts. — Daniel Silva

The prejudice of Englishmen, in favour of their own government by king, lords and commons, arises as much or more from national pride than reason. — Thomas Paine

An Englishman fears contempt more than death. — Oliver Goldsmith

No Englishman is ever fairly beaten — George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions. — Anna Letitia Barbauld

Old England is our home, and Englishmen are we; Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag in every sea. — Mary Howitt

For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree. — William Blake

In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted. — William Ralph Inge

Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety nine out of a hundred will tell you that they would prefer to be Englishmen — Cecil Rhodes

You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right. — William Penn

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

Englishmen do like to get in a dress, any excuse. — Noel Fielding

I don't hold it against you that you turned out Irish, either. I wasn't there to make Englishmen of you, and so it's Irish you are, by default. — Neal Stephenson

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them. — George Bernard Shaw

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure — Anne Fadiman

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

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen. — Winston Churchill

I have no intention of watching undersized Englishmen perched on horses with matchstick legs race along courses planned to amuse Nell Gwynn. — Gilbert Harding

He doesn't want to face Englishmen,' the Lord of Douglas said, and he knew he was right. Ever since the Scottish knights — Bernard Cornwell

Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead. — Wilfred Owen

Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles. — John Wycliffe

The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and tradition. — John Adams

Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America? — E.B. White

Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton. — E.M. Delafield

I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere. — Ray Davies

He was just one of those Englishmen who was always saying silly things to sound less pompous, and pompous things to sound less silly. — Edward St. Aubyn

An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say. — Samuel Johnson

My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad. — Bill Forsyth

I am the last Englishman to rule in India. — Jawaharlal Nehru

It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen. — Mahatma Gandhi

Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias. — Mahatma Gandhi

One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor. — Marshall McLuhan

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

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

To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity. — William Henry Harrison

The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists. — Neville Weston

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

In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English ways are too gross for us. — J. Sheridan Le Fanu

And Englishmen like posing as gods. — E. M. Forster

All Englishmen talk as if they've got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated from the pips. — W.C. Fields

The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing. — Mahatma Gandhi

Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness. — William Bradford

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards. — Austin O'Malley

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them. — Julian Fellowes

The word most consistently used to describe Kim Philby was "charm", that intoxicating, beguiling and occasionally lethal English quality. — Ben Macintyre

The last great Englishman is low. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was. — Lafcadio Hearn

Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to be able to tell a good lie in answer to a charge. — Ford Madox Ford

Englishmen must have an island. — F Scott Fitzgerald

You Englishmen,' said Herr Wurter. 'You are all the same. Wherever you are you behave as if you were at home and your word was law. — Derek Raymond

Englishmen were rained on too often to come up with anything that imaginative. — Natasha Pulley

Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers. — Rudyard Kipling

Englishmen have always loved Moliere. — Lytton Strachey

Englishmen have a genius for looking uncomfortable. Their feelings are terribly mixed up with their personal appearance. — Sara Jeannette Duncan

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

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought. — William Butler Yeats

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

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun. — Noel Coward

I should add that there are undoubtedly charming Englishmen; I have often met them. But they are rarely our fellow-guests at hotels. — Guy De Maupassant

In these latter days, knighthood was an honor few Englishmen escaped. — Arthur C. Clarke

John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since! — Bertrand Russell