Englishmen Quotes
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To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.
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We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.
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The scientific study of the vital relationship between infants and their mothers was started by upper-class Englishmen who were torn from their families as young boys to be sent off to boarding schools, where they were raised in regimented same-sex settings.
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I do no think human beings ever came through such a month as we have…We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.
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We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.
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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.
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You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right.
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We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end.
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The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.
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Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.
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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 time I get more emotional. My plan is to stay here because I'm convinced Manchester City will be at the same level as Real Madrid and Barcelona.
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The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.
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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
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In truth, no men on earth can cheer like Englishmen, who do so rally one another's blood and spirit when they cheer in earnest, that the stir is like the rush of their whole history, with all its standards waving at once, from Saxon Alfred's downwards.
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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!
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For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.
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Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.
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An Englishman never takes his collar off when he is writing. How can you expect him to show you his soul?
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The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.
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I had always thought myself to be a man of moderate passions indistinguishable in that respect from most Englishmen born to our logical and mannered times.
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I thinke it not amisse to forewarne you that you thrust as few wordes of many sillables into your verse as may be: and hereunto I might alledge many reasons: first the most auncient English wordes are of one sillable, so that the more monasyllables that you use, the truer Englishman you shall seeme, and the lesse you shall smell of the Inkehorne.
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When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.
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Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.
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It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time to time and behave in certain fixed ways that even a baboon could master, like Englishmen dressing for dinner in the tropics.
