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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
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
I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense.
— Teddy Thompson
What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.
— George Bernard Shaw
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
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 that marriage is a long dull meal with the pudding served first.
— Julian Barnes
Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?
— Kurt Vonnegut
The true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.
— E. M. Forster
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
The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing commends a radical change to an Englishman more than the belief that it is really conservative.
— H.A.L. Fisher
Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The fraudulent electrical utility company in conjunction with the corrupt sheriff taught me that an Englishman's home is not his castle
— Steven Magee
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
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
An Englishman is the unfittest person on earth to argue another Englishman into slavery.
— Edmund Burke
The scene he witnessed there in the twilight depths of the African jungle was burned forever into the Englishman's brain.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.
— Edmund Barton
Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
— Cecil Rhodes
Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of ... the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.
— William Blackstone
I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.
— Michael Ondaatje
That man made a deep impression on me; I shall never forget his countenance!" The Englishman smiled imperceptibly.
— Alexandre Dumas
The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.
— George Bernard Shaw
No! The captain of the guard was that damned Englishman in disguise, and everyone of his soldiers aristos! The
— Emmuska Orczy
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
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
I have always thought it bad manners to let one's fingers stay too long in another man's snuffbox.
— Anna Freeman
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
— A.J. Liebling
The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.
— Washington Irving
When the Englishman speaks of national wealth he means the number of millionaires in the country.
— Oswald Spengler
Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.
— Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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
You can always depend on an Englishman to play the game
— Agatha Christie
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
Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
— Germaine Greer
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
— Evelyn Waugh
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 last great Englishman is low.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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
There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.
— Madame De Stael
