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Tag Name "Englishman" (110)

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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
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Michael Powell always used to say 'I'm a typical Englishman'. He was and he wasn't. He was very cosmopolitan and spent a lot of time in Europe.
Thelma Schoonmaker
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If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much.
Arsene Wenger
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The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.
William Blackstone
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An Englishman will take you into a large room, beautifully proportioned, and will point out to you that it is white- all over white- and somebody will say what exquisite taste. You know in your own mind, in your own soul, that it is not taste at all˘that is the want of taste˘that is mere evasion. English music is white and evades everything.
Edward Elgar
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An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.
Samuel Johnson
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GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night: I thank my God for my humility.
William Shakespeare
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...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.
E. M. Forster
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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
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Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.
James Agate
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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
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It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
George Bernard Shaw
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that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me
Alexandre Dumas
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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
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Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
George Bernard Shaw
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Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.
E. M. Delafield
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I'm sure this Jesus will not do Either for Englishman or Jew.
William Blake
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You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.
Evelyn Waugh
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Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
Cecil Rhodes
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
Truman Capote
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There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.
George Bernard Shaw
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The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three [Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury], the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
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I'm an Englishman. What more can I say?
Alan Sugar
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Nothing commends a radical change to an Englishman more than the belief that it is really conservative.
H. A. L. Fisher
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