Englishman Quotes
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The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.
Kabir Bedi
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I am going to have a cup of tea, like any good Englishman.
Brian Jones
The Rolling Stones
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The depressing thing about an Englishman's traditional love of animals is the dishonesty thereof ... Get a barbed hook into the upper lip of a salmon, drag him endlessly around the water until he loses his strength, pull him to the bank, hit him on the head with a stone, and you may well become fisherman of the year. Shoot.the salmon and you'll never be asked again.
Clement Freud
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It is the highest and most legitimate pride of an Englishman to have the letters M.P. written after his name. No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,--not though it be of the Garter,--confers so fair an honour.
Anthony Trollope
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That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.
Beatrice Webb
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Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that 'tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for't.
John Locke
Nazareth
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If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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About one thing the Englishman has a particularly strict code. If a bird says Cluk bik bik bik bik and caw you may kill it, eat it or ask Fortnums to pickle it in Napoleon brandy with wild strawberries. If it says tweet it is a dear and precious friend and you'd better lay off it if you want to remain a member of Boodles.
Clement Freud
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Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
Cecil Rhodes
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A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.
Jules Verne
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We love Stewart. He does that song from 'Rawhide,' which is really funny coming from an Englishman. But if you're trying to concentrate and you're under the gun, (his whistling) penetrates in an inescapable way.
Anne Baxter
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As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world, even so is the Englishman powerless to think in the terms of, or legislate for, the Indian.
Mahatma Gandhi
