Englishmen Quotes - Page 7

• The right of ordinary citizens to possess weapons is the most extraordinary, most controversial, and least understood of those liberties secured by Englishmen and bequeathed to their American colonists. It lies at the very heart of the relationship between the individual and his fellows, and between the individual and his government.

  Joyce Lee Malcolm

  Lying, Heart, Government

  Joyce Lee Malcolm (1996). “To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right”, p.11, Harvard University Press

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• An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Laughter, Thinking, Laughing

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• Some Englishmen, of whom Kitchener was chief, believed that a rebellion of Arabs against Turks would enable England, while fighting Germany, simultaneously to defeat Turkey. Their knowledge of the nature and power and country of the Arabic-speaking peoples made them think that the issue of such a rebellion would be happy: and indicated its character and method. So they allowed it to begin.

  Edward Thomas

  Country, Character, Fighting

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• Sherry...a silly, sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers, and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day.

  George Henry Borrow

  Silly, Race, Use

  "Wild Wales". Book by George Henry Borrow, ch. 38, 1862.

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

  George Henry Borrow

  Betray, Countenance, Knows

  George Henry Borrow (1848). “Gypsies of Spain”, p.19

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Links, Cabinets, Worst

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4586, e-artnow

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• There is no land like England,
  Where'er the light of day be;
  There are no hearts like English hearts,
  Such hearts of oak as they be;
  There is no land like England,
  Where'er the light of day be:
  There are no men like Englishmen,
  So tall and bold as they be!
  And these will strike for England,
  And man and maid be free
  To foil and spoil the tyrant
  Beneath the greenwood tree.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Men, Light

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• A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  May, England, Cleanliness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.48

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

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Law, Giving, Different

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.123

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• Thousands of Americans, Englishmen and Frenchmen have visited Germany during the months after the national revolution and were able to testify as eye-witnesses that there is no country in the world where law and order are better maintained than in present-day Germany.  That there is no country in the world where person and property are held in better respect than in our own, but that there is perhaps also no country in the word where a more rigorous fight is put up against those who believe that they are free to let loose their lower instincts to the detriment of their fellow-beings.

  Adolf Hitler

  Country, Believe, Eye

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• Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Language, States

  Mahatma Gandhi (2014). “Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation”, p.73, The Floating Press

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• Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ideas, Liberty, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.165, Rajpal & Sons

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• This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Training, Belief, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Message of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Useless, Language, Unnecessary

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

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• We have experienced the truth of this prophecy, for England has become the habitation of outsiders and the dominion of foreigners. Today, no Englishman is earl, bishop, or abbott, and newcomers gnaw away at the riches and very innards of England; nor is there any hope for an end of this misery.

  William of Malmesbury

  Riches, Outsiders, England

  "The English and the Normans". Book by Hugh Thomas, p. 56, 2003.

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• To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Essentials, Language, Infatuation

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.170, Courier Corporation

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• I'm French. I have not become an Englishman. I have the impression of living on an island called Arsenal. If you fancy a sightseeing tour of London, don't ask me. You would get lost.

  Arsene Wenger

  Soccer, Football, Islands

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• Englishmen Francis Galton to describe the "science" of bettering human stock and the elimination of unwanted characteristics... and individuals. Galton proposed societal intervention for the furtherance of "racial quality," maintaining that "Jews are specialized for a parasitical existence upon other nations" and that "except by sterilization I cannot yet see any way of checking the produce of the unfit who are allowed their liberty and are below the reach of moral control.

  Francis Galton

  Liberty, Quality, Way

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• How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

  Mark Twain

  Brave, Danger, Form

  Mark Twain (194?). “Mark Twain's notebook”

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• Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Long, Independence, Yoke

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.153, Oxford University Press

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• If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Land, India, Welcome

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.40, Penguin Books India

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• My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Political, Usurpers, Language

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• We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mistake, Thinking, India

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.152, Oxford University Press

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• I think my favorite scenes [in Night Music] are the ones that kind of happen when the handsome Englishman shows up.. He doesn't quite figure out she is from the 1920s because he doesn't really figure out she is a ghost, because she has manifested into physical form.

  Boti Bliss

  Night, Thinking, Handsome

  Source: actionflickchick.com

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• However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, May, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

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