Englishmen Quotes

No Englishman is ever fairly beaten

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.

Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?

The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.

John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!

Englishmen must have an island.

Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree.

Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.

Louise de Keroualle, being a Frenchwoman from the French court, was feared by most Englishmen for how she might influence their king, and that fear quickly turned to hatred.

The last great Englishman is low.

Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.

The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

There is a peculiarity in the countenance, as everybody knows, which, though it cannot be described, is sure to betray the Englishman.

Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely.

The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and tradition.

In the dark days and darker nights when England stood alone-and most men save Englishmen despaired of England's life-he [Churchill] mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to be able to tell a good lie in answer to a charge.

Even an Englishman was niver improved by bein' blown up.

Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.

The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.

Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land.

We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.

When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.

For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.

Englishmen do like to get in a dress, any excuse.

You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer, ” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.

In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English ways are too gross for us.

The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists.

There comes a moment for all of us when our childhood ceases to be an excuse. In your case, I would say that, as with many English, the moment is somewhat delayed.

You Englishmen, ’ said Herr Wurter. ‘You are all the same. Wherever you are you behave as if you were at home and your word was law.

And Englishmen like posing as gods.