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Tag Name "Englishmen" (61)

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Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.
William Butler Yeats
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Englishmen have always loved Moliere.
Lytton Strachey
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Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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
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Englishmen have a genius for looking uncomfortable. Their feelings are terribly mixed up with their personal appearance.
Sara Jeannette Duncan
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Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. When one gets there the result is unrewarding, but the process is instructive and entertaining.
Ian Fleming
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Englishmen do like to get in a dress, any excuse.
Noel Fielding
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Englishmen must have an island.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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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Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.
Julian Fellowes
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To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.
William Henry Harrison
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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
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Sometimes, however, the Gaelic blood asserts itself. The Frenchmen will then attack. But the French attacking spirit is like bottled lemonade. It lacks tenacity. The Englishmen, on the other hand, one notices that they are of Germanic blood. Sportsmen easily take to flying, and Englishmen see in flying nothing but a sport.
Manfred von Richthofen
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Old England is our home, and Englishmen are we Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag in every sea.
Mary Howitt
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Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.
Noel Coward
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An Englishmen thinks seated a Frenchmen standing an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
Austin O'Malley
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At twelve noon, The natives swoon And no further work is doneBut mad dogs and Englishmen, Go out in the midday sun.
Noel Coward
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When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust.
Donald Bradman
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The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.
R. H. Tawney
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Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to be able to tell a good lie in answer to a charge.
Ford Madox Ford
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It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm.
Samuel Johnson
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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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German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.
George Bernard Shaw
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Louise de Keroualle, being a Frenchwoman from the French court, was feared by most Englishmen for how she might influence their king, and that fear quickly turned to hatred.
Susan Holloway Scott
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