Englishman Quotes
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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.
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No Englishman is ever fairly beaten...
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I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish."
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Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.
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An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
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What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.
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The last great Englishman is low.
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That Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me.
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I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.
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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.
