Englishman Quotes
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Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.
George Bernard Shaw -
It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions.
Jules Verne
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The last great Englishman is low.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Coco Chanel -
An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet.
Jules Verne -
I think my favorite scenes in Night Music are the ones that kind of happen when the handsome Englishman shows up.. He doesn't quite figure out she is from the 1920s because he doesn't really figure out she is a ghost, because she has manifested into physical form.
Boti Bliss -
My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.
Mahatma Gandhi -
An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
George Mikes
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The tone in which an Englishman expresses anger would, in Italy, be only a mark of surprise.
Etienne Bonnot de Condillac -
That Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me.
Alexandre Dumas -
When an English man speaks well, for example now, and this is another way of putting us down, they say he's "eloquent" you see. "Oh, eloquent chap they are!" An Irish person speak well, they say, "Ah, you have the gift of the gab." "Ah, you kissed the blarney stone." You see, all of this putting us down.
Malachy McCourt -
No Englishman is ever fairly beaten...
George Bernard Shaw -
I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.
Charles Dickens -
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