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Tag Name "Englishman" (110)

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Within 18 months of my parents' marriage in 1900, my mother fell in love with an Englishman who would have described himself as a gentleman but who was, in fact, nothing more than a devious adventurer.
Paul Mellon
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Emeric [Pressburger] was completely cosmopolitan. That's what makes their [with Michael Powell] films so special. Neither of them thought twice about making a film about a friendship between an Englishman and a German during the Blitz. They were genius.
Thelma Schoonmaker
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I am by nature the most intolerant and insular Englishman... If you happen to be a person like that and you learn from evidence (which you are prepared to accept) that in the past you have been a Chinese, an Egyptian, a Persian, a Red Indian... you begin to assume a somewhat less exclusive view of these our fellow men.
Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
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Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?
E. B. White
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
Billie Joe Armstrong
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The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.
James Agate
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In the heart of any pious Jew, God is a Jew. Is your God an Englishman or an American?
Maurice Samuel
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So the books for the Englishman, as he listened intently or not, had gaps of plot like sections of a road washed out by storms, missing incidents as if locusts had consumed a section of tapestry, as if plaster loosened by the bombing had fallen away from a mural at night.
Michael Ondaatje
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I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman.
John Cleese
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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
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I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.
Anne Stevenson
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An Englishman, Irishman and Scotsman were invited to a Christmas party. The Englishman brought a bag of tinsel, the Scotsman brought a bag of holly and they asked the Irishman: What have you brought? He said: I brought a pair of knickers. They asked: What has that got to do with Christmas? He said They're Carol's.
Frank Carson
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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
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
George Bernard Shaw
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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
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Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
George Bernard Shaw
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An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb threatened, a lion.
George Chapman
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I am going to have a cup of tea, like any good Englishman.
Brian Jones
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The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.
Kabir Bedi
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Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.
Henry David Thoreau
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About one thing the Englishman has a particularly strict code. If a bird says Cluk bik bik bik bik and caw you may kill it, eat it or ask Fortnums to pickle it in Napoleon brandy with wild strawberries. If it says tweet it is a dear and precious friend and you'd better lay off it if you want to remain a member of Boodles.
Clement Freud
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You are an Englishman, and have subsequently drawn the greatest prize in the lottery of life.
Cecil Rhodes
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