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Tag Name "Englishmen" (204)

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What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.
Joseph Heller
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But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.
Samuel Pepys
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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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Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree.
William Blake
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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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[The] prevailing reason at this time is, that the Act of Parliament is against the Magna Charta, and the natural rights of Englishmen, and therefore, according to Lord Coke, null and void.
Thomas Hutchinson
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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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I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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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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
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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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Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure
Anne Fadiman
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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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Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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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