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 -
For my mother, everything stands in relation to her Welshness; the fact she married an Englishman seems to be something of an issue. She's kind of anti-English... anti-imperialist.
Ben Miller
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An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
George Mikes -
What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Coco Chanel -
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 -
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 -
The last great Englishman is low.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
The tone in which an Englishman expresses anger would, in Italy, be only a mark of surprise.
Etienne Bonnot de Condillac
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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.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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 -
That Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me.
Alexandre Dumas -
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 -
No Englishman is ever fairly beaten...
George Bernard Shaw