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An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion. -- George Chapman
The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose. -- A. P. Herbert
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. -- George Bernard Shaw
An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue. -- Henry James
I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one. -- George Mikes
You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course. -- Evelyn Waugh
An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch. -- Daniel Defoe
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. -- A. J. Liebling
Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life. -- Cecil Rhodes
Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone. -- Germaine Greer
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car? -- George Bernard Shaw
The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian. -- Diane von Furstenberg
Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is. -- Ogden Nash
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
The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend. -- Katharine Hepburn
The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy. -- Louis Kronenberger
If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never! -- William Pitt
As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark to the Nobel Prizes for the years 1918 and 1919. -- Charles Glover Barkla
The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
I can be described as many things, but no description of me is complete without saying 'Englishman.' My parents were from Liverpool and emigrated to Canada before I was born. -- Mike Myers
I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one. -- Sean Connery
You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements. -- William Butler Yeats
Charles Darwin sailed around the world for two years on the 'Beagle,' and he had quite a bit of interest in things like the iguanas of the Galapagos, even though they were primitive compared to your average Englishman. -- Seth Shostak
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. -- Robert Falcon Scott
When you arrive in L.A. as an Englishman, you might as well be on the moon. People just don't understand you if you speak too fast, and most people there think you're Australian. Ordering was incredibly complicated. I was speechless. -- Ben Chaplin
No Englishman is ever fairly beaten -- George Bernard Shaw
The last great Englishman is low. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
An Englishman fears contempt more than death. -- Oliver Goldsmith
An Englishman's car is his castle on wheels. -- Simon Jenkins
I'm an Englishman. What more can I say? -- Alan Sugar
Silence can be defined as conversation with an Englishman -- Heinrich Heine
I am the last Englishman to rule in India. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island. -- Novalis
The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose. -- A. P. Herbert
Who else but an Englishman could invent an oval ball. -- Peter Pook
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years. -- Brendan Behan
I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman. -- John Cleese
Even an Englishman was niver improved by bein' blown up. -- Finley Peter Dunne
The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman. -- George Bernard Shaw
Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic. -- E. M. Delafield
Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Englishman respects your opinions, but he never thinks of your feelings. -- Wilfrid Laurier
What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel. -- Coco Chanel
I'm sure this Jesus will not do Either for Englishman or Jew. -- William Blake
An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet. -- Jules Verne
An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say. -- Samuel Johnson
Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton. -- E. M. Delafield
I am going to have a cup of tea, like any good Englishman. -- Brian Jones
From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom. -- Heinrich Heine
Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men. -- Mahatma Gandhi
How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms. -- George Bernard Shaw
There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea. -- Madame de Stael
It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy! -- Tom Metzger
If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck. -- Jackie Mason
The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here. -- Kabir Bedi
A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman. -- Heinrich Heine
I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since. -- Anne Stevenson
...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out. -- E. M. Forster
Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment. -- Colin Firth
When the Englishman speaks of national wealth he means the number of millionaires in the country. -- Oswald Spengler
Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France. -- Henry David Thoreau
The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil. -- Washington Irving
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree. -- George Bernard Shaw
Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America? -- E. B. White
The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman. -- James Joyce
I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy. -- Charles Dickens
Nothing commends a radical change to an Englishman more than the belief that it is really conservative. -- H. A. L. Fisher
A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager. -- Jules Verne
We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution. -- William Bolitho
How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life. -- Beatrice Webb
A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five! -- Barbara Chase-Riboud
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him. -- George Bernard Shaw
The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman. -- Junius
What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity. -- George Bernard Shaw
The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property. -- William Blackstone
It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In the heart of any pious Jew, God is a Jew. Is your God an Englishman or an American? -- Maurice Samuel
A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it. -- Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you? -- Kurt Vonnegut
An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time -- Diana Gabaldon
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist. -- Evelyn Waugh
An Englishman never takes his collar off when he is writing. How can you expect him to show you his soul? -- William McFee
that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me -- Alexandre Dumas
The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman. -- Edmund Barton
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim & a Hindu only by accident of birth. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense. -- Teddy Thompson
A man once asked to shake hands with me, the "greatest Englishman who ever lived." I replied, "F**k off, I'm Irish. -- Spike Milligan
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
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
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
Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection. -- Diana Gabaldon
An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles. -- George Bernard Shaw
An Englishman hath three qualities, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his friend, nor to be dared by any. -- John Lyly
The Englishman, be it noted, seldom resorts to violence; when he is sufficiently goaded he simply opens up, like the oyster, and devours his adversary. -- Henry Miller
The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles. -- Maxim Gorky
An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a bar. The barman looks at them and says: "Is this some kind of a joke?" -- Frank Carson
My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
... 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
Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is good ale. -- George Henry Borrow
Life isn't all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education. -- Thomas Hughes
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
I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishman's cottage, the King of England could not. -- John James Ingalls
The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in sadness itself. -- Jerome K. Jerome
It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable to domestic solacement. -- Herman Melville
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
The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to be considered a good guy. -- Louis Kronenberger
If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog. -- George Bernard Shaw
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
Rugby is a game for the mentally deficient... That is why it was invented by the British. Who else but an Englishman could invent an oval ball? -- Peter Pook
By the early seventies I had become an Englishman - that is to say, I hated England just as much as half my compatriots seemed to do. -- Nick Hornby
An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before. -- Mark Twain
My favourite novel is Frederick Forsythe's Day Of The Jackal, the story about the unproven case of this apparent Englishman who was hired to assassinate De GaulleÂ?. -- Charles Kennedy
To me the soul of an Indian seemed as precious as the soul of an Englishman, and the Gospel as much for the Chinese as for the European. -- James Gilmour

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