An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
A. P. Herbert

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
A. J. Liebling

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
George Bernard Shaw

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
Daniel Defoe

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
George Chapman

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
George Mikes

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
Henry James

An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.
Alan Jay Lerner

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
Germaine Greer

Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.
Ogden Nash

Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.
Robert Falcon Scott

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.
Hervey Allen

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

I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.
Anne Stevenson

If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.
Jackie Mason

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!
William Pitt

In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me.
Colin Firth

Life isn't all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education.
Thomas Hughes

Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward.
John Amery

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.
Roland Joffe