Englishmen Quotes - Page 11

• Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Yield, Hands, Spinning

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary treasures.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hate, Fighting, Appreciate

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• My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Attitude, Language, British

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• If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mother, Ignorant, Done

  Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

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• It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Language, Britain

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Village, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion”, Clarendon Press

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• I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Battle, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)”

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• Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Government, Language, Weak

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• What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Doe, Violence, Language

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• What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.

  Coco Chanel

  Thinking, Lasts, Scoundrels

  Source: www.chanel-muggeridge.com

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• A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his travels. Why not begin his travels at home? Would he have to go far or look very closely to discover novelties? The traveler who, in this sense, pursues his travels at home, has the advantage at any rate of a long residence in the country to make his observations correct and profitable. Now the American goes to England, while the Englishman comes to America, in order to describe the country.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Travel, Home

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.86, Yale University Press

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• When the Englishman speaks of national wealth he means the number of millionaires in the country.

  Oswald Spengler

  Country, Mean, Numbers

  Oswald Spengler (1967). “Selected Essays”

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• Deploring change is the unchangeable habit of all Englishmen. If you find any important figures who really like change, such as Bernard Shaw, Keir Hardie, Lloyd George, Selfridge or Disraeli, you will find that they are not really English at all, but Irish, Scotch, Welsh, American or Jewish. Englishmen make changes, sometimes great changes. But, secretly or openly, they always deplore them.

  Raymond Postgate

  Scotch, Important, Sometimes

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• If we had to take a million immigrants in, say Zulus, next year, or Englishmen, and put them up in Virginia, what group would be easier to assimilate and would cause less problems for the people of Virginia?

  Pat Buchanan

  Virginia, Years, People

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• to the Indian, politics are what the weather is to an Englishman. Politics are an introduction to a stranger on a train, they are the standard filler for embarrassing silences in conversation, they are the inevitable small talk at any social gathering.

  Santha Rama Rau

  Weather, Silence, India

  Santha Rama Rau (1945). “Home to India”

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• ... it takes a great deal to produce ennui in an Englishman and if you do, he only takes it as convincing proof that you are well-bred.

  Margaret Halsey

  Proof, Produce, Ennui

  Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

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• Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles.

  John Wycliffe

  Law, Tongue, Christ

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• Englishmen must have an island.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Islands

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.45, New Directions Publishing

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• It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time to time and behave in certain fixed ways that even a baboon could master, like Englishmen dressing for dinner in the tropics.

  Wilfrid

  Dinner, Way, Sanity

  "In Love with Daylight". Book by Wilfrid Sheed, 1995.

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• In other words, the problem of empire-building is essentially mystical. It must somehow foster the impression that a man is great in the degree that his nation is great; that a German as such is superior to a Belgian as such; an Englishman, to an Irishman; an American, to a Mexican: merely because the first-named countries are in each case more powerful than their comparatives. And people who have no individual stature whatever are willing to accept this poisonous nonsense because it gives them a sense of importance without the trouble of any personal effort.

  Felix Morley

  Country, Powerful, Men

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• Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five hundred and another five thousand and yet another fifty thousand and still you may come across a further fifty thousand you have never heard of before, and nobody else either.

  George Mikes

  Vocabulary, Average, Use

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• To me the soul of an Indian seemed as precious as the soul of an Englishman, and the Gospel as much for the Chinese as for the European.

  James Gilmour

  Soul, Chinese, Missionary

  James Gilmour (1892). “James Gilmour of Mongolia: His Diaries, Letters and Reports”

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• I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.

  Charles Dickens

  Thinking, America, Impossible

  "American Notes".

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• An Englishman's car is his castle on wheels.

  Simon Jenkins

  America, Car, Castles

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• The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.

  Edmund Barton

  Men, Doctrine, Equality Of Man

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