“ 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- Copy
- 2.7K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy. ”
- Louis Kronenberger- Copy
- 419
“ An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion. ”
- George Chapman- Copy
- 1.1K
“ The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman. ”
- Junius- Copy
- 2.3K
“ The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else. ”
- James Agate- Copy
- 2.5K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.2K
“ In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted. ”
- Dean William R. Inge- Copy
- 1.4K
“ How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 2K
“ Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them; but every Englishman loves a pedigree. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 349
“ Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought. ”
- William Butler Yeats- Copy
- 90
“ An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards. ”
- Austin O’Malley- Copy
- 2K
“ An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one. ”
- George Mikes- Copy
- 228
“ An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 969
“ It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 1.8K
“ An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 4K
“ Sometimes, however, the Gaelic blood asserts itself. The Frenchmen will then attack. But the French attacking spirit is like bottled lemonade. It lacks tenacity. The Englishmen, on the other hand, one notices that they are of Germanic blood. Sportsmen easily take to flying, and Englishmen see in flying nothing but a sport. ”
- Baron Manfred von Richthofen- Copy
- 581
- 1