Englishman Quotes

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

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
George Bernard Shaw

Politics, Car, Mind

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
Katharine Hepburn

American, Ambition, Married

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
Benjamin Disraeli

Treat, Makes, Foreign

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
William Butler Yeats

God, Truth, Two

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
Cecil Rhodes

Life, Remember, Won

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

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Him, Eyes, Anxiety

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

Two, Drink, Families

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

Convinced, Club, Belong

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

Natural, Tongue, Holding

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

Food, American, Blind

I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
Billie Joe Armstrong

American, Sound

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

Purpose, Himself, Except

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

Confused, America, Felt

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

Alone, Against, Brother

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

Down, Country, American

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.
Evelyn Waugh

Find, Except, Among

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

Lion, Threatened, Flattered

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

Purpose, Himself, Except

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

Life, Education, Best

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

Alone, Orderly, Queue

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

Down, Run, Truck

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

Courage, Heart, Tell

I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense.
Teddy Thompson

Love, Funny, Sad

The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.
Kabir Bedi

Music, Here, Idea

Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy!
Tom Metzger

Crazy, Rather, White

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

Young, Married, Since

We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin rifle, similar to the one Annie Oakley had, and my husband has a .357 Magnum pistol. All those are locked up tight, of course. We have a couple of pellet guns that get more use than the real guns.
Bonnie Jo Campbell

Husband, Real, Living

Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do we get for it?
Henry Lawson

Home, Poor, Says

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