Englishmen Quotes

• 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

  Want, Scotsmen

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  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

  Funny, Cute, Movie

  1954 In the Journal American, 22 Feb.

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• 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

  Country, Military, Revolution

  Francis Thackeray, William Pitt (1827). “A history of the Right Honorable William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: containing his speeches in Parliament : a considerable portion of his correspondence, when Secretary of State, upon French, Spanish, and American affairs, never before published with an account of the principal events and persons of his time, connected with his life, sentiments and administrations ; (Mit dem Bildnisse Pitts)”, p.327

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• 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

  Inspiration, Doe, Done

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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

  A. J. Liebling

  Travel, Food, Teaching

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• Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

  Novalis

  Islands, England

  "Fragments". Book by Novalis, 1799.

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

  George Mikes

  Form, Queues, Orderly

  'How to be an Alien' (1946) p. 44

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• The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.

  William Hazlitt

  Thinking, Vanity, Differences

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.119

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

  Tom Metzger

  Crazy, White, Madness

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• An Englishman fears contempt more than death.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Contempt

  Oliver Goldsmith, Henry George Bohn (1848). “Works: With a Life and Notes”, p.13

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

  Kabir Bedi

  Ideas, Average, Scene

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• Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.

  Noel Coward

  Dog, Mad, Sun

  "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" (song) (1931).

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• In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.

  William Ralph Inge

  Logical, Adopted, Solutions

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• An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Thinking, Morality, Uncomfortable

  Man and Superman act 3 (1903)

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

  George Chapman

  Lambs, Lions, Threatened

  'Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany' (1654) act 1

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

  Jackie Mason

  Running, Humor, Apology

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Play, Devil, Thanks

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• 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

  Political, Phrases, Politics

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4987, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  William Blake

  Art, Aggravation, Vices

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• 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, but surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Country, Heart, Rich Countries

  "Message to the Public," Times (London), 11 Feb. 1913

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• 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

  Civilization, Leaving, Departed

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• 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

  Wrestling, Cities, Joy

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• That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization.

  John Amery

  Civilization, Political, Prejudice

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• 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

  Afterlife, Tonight, Radio

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

  Evelyn Waugh

  Dog, Literature, England

  'The Loved One' (1948) ch. 1

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