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Source: Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted

“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.”

I Can Parent Born Canada Description Englishmen Liverpool

Author:Mike Myers

“And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They abstained in the 1947 UN partition resolution... They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s... They always worked against us. They think the Arabs are the underdogs.”

Thinking Courses Arms England Resolution Establishment Israeli Englishmen Underdog Partition Embargo

Author:Shimon Peres

“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!”

Ifs Country Military Revolution Arms Lays Englishmen Total War Good Patriotic

Book:A history of the Right Honorable William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: containing his speeches in Parliament : a considerable portion of his correspondence, when Secretary of State, upon French, Spanish, and American affairs, never before published with an account of the principal events and persons of his time, connected with his life, sentiments and administrations ; (Mit dem Bildnisse Pitts)

Source: A history of the Right Honorable William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: containing his speeches in Parliament : a considerable portion of his correspondence, when Secretary of State, upon French, Spanish, and American affairs, never before published with an account of the principal events and persons of his time, connected with his life, sentiments and administrations ; (Mit dem Bildnisse Pitts)

“Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.”

Firsts Remember Prize Englishmen Lottery Winning The Lottery

Author:Cecil Rhodes

“An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.”

Thinking Moral Morality Uncomfortable Englishmen Man And Superman

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?”

Giving Mind Long Political Politics Car Motor Englishmen Motor Cars

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.”

Art Artist Foundation Vices Empires Remove Englishmen Vice Versa Aggravation Degrade Art And Science

Book:William Blake

Source: William Blake

“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.”

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Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“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.”

People Knows Two Ideas Truth Lying Statements Compromise Englishmen There Is No God

Author:William Butler Yeats

“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.”

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Book:Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition

Source: Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition

“They were adored by the Germans, who thought they were exactly what Englishmen ought to be. They made war look stylish and reasonable, and fun... They were dressed half for battle, half for tennis or croquet.”

Looks Made War Fun Half Ought Battle Tennis Reasonable Englishmen Stylish Croquet

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know how to form a proper queue?”

Ifs Knows World Form Spirit Next Know How Englishmen Queues

Author:Julian Barnes

“This book will prove the following ten facts: 1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there. 2. Pigs have wings, making them hard to catch. 3. All power corrupts, but we need electricity. 4. When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, the result is a family fight. 5. Music does not always sooth the troubled beast. 6. An Englishman's home is his castle. 7. The female of the species is more deadly than the male. 8. One black eye deserves another. 9. Space is the final frontier, and so is the sewage farm. 10. It pays to increase your word power.”

“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.”

Ifs Book Night Missing Storm Fallen Plot Gaps Sections Consumed Incidents Englishmen Bombing Tapestry Plasters Mural

Book:The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

“There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been told that the world rested on a platform which rested on the back of an elephant which rested in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that turtle? 'Ah, Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down”

World Way Stories Turns Heard Indian Behave Platforms Elephants Turn-on Englishmen Turtles

Book:Myth and ritual in Shakespeare: A midsummer night's dream

Source: Myth and ritual in Shakespeare: A midsummer night's dream

“that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me”

Three Challenges Four Months Bother Englishmen

Author:Alexandre Dumas

“The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.”

Enough Play Dies Masters Devil Thanks Englishmen Harness Donkey Frenchmen

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?”

Names Wish Englishmen Wish You

Book:A Man Without a Country

Source: A Man Without a Country

“A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.”

Talking Serious Jokes Englishmen Wagers

Book:Around the World in Eighty Days

Source: Around the World in Eighty Days

“But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.”

Men Play Fall Brain Knowing Flow Constitution Instinct Spread Intimate Englishmen

Author:Jane Austen

“And do you know, do you know that mankind can live without the Englishman, it can live without Germany, it can live only too well without the Russian man, it can live without science, without bread, and it only cannot live without beauty, for then there would be nothing at all to do in the world! The whole secret is here, the whole of history is here. Science itself would not stand for a minute without beauty”

Knows Men World Wells Whole Would Be Secret Minutes Mankind Bread Germany Do You Know Englishmen

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy”

Sometimes Life Is Wish Stupid Healthy Dumb Englishmen American Life

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.”

Men Looks Faces Young Speak Language Shame Young Man Sat Hotel Englishmen Cannes Terrace Speaks French

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure”

Admire Heroic Englishmen

Book:Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

“"Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection.”

Firsts Affection Stranger Englishmen Jest Outlander Gaelic

Author:Diana Gabaldon

“Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely.”

Men Grief Cry Tears Pressure Continents Shed Englishmen

Book:The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 23: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

Source: The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 23: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

“An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time”

Thinking Way Years Long Long Time Hundred Miles Long Way Englishmen

Author:Diana Gabaldon

“Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.”

Contrary Likes Englishmen Tourists Traveller

Book:A Bachelor Abroad: A Mediterranean Journal

Source: A Bachelor Abroad: A Mediterranean Journal

“Cheat? Good heavens, this is an amateur cricket match amongst leading prep schools, I'm an Englishman and a schoolmaster supposedly setting an example to his young charges. We are playing the most artistic and beautiful game ever devised. Of course I'll cunting well cheat. Now, give me my robe and put on my crown. I have immortal longings in me.”

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Book:The Liar

Source: The Liar

“...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion and of his own sympathy.”

Has Beens Felt Emotion Century England Ashamed Englishmen

Book:The Scarlet Pimpernel

Source: The Scarlet Pimpernel

“Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.”

Three Rooms Fourth Englishmen Joining

Book:Snobs: A Novel

Source: Snobs: A Novel

“I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover innkeepers, postillions, officials, burghers, potboys, and all kinds and sorts of ladies whose brains still seem somewhat deranged from their brief exposure to his lordship. And though my companions are careful to tell people that I am that dreadful being, an English magician, I am clearly nothing in comparison to an English poet and everywhere I go I enjoy the reputation- quite new to me, I assure you- of the quiet, good Englishman, who makes no noise and is no trouble to any one.”

Source: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

“Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.”

Horse Heels Bulls Horns Englishmen

Author:James Joyce

“People were intrinsically selfish, and many hated the idea of a woman in charge of the Institute. They would not put themselves at risk for her. Only a few weeks ago he would have said the same thing about himself. Now, knowing Charlotte, he realized to his surprise, the idea of risking himself for her seemed an honor, as it would be to most Englishmen to risk themselves for the queen.”

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Book:Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.”

Lions Threatened Englishmen Lambs Flattered

Author:George Chapman

“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.”

Names Drink Beer Englishmen Deserving Ale

Book:Lavengro: The Scholar--the Gypsy--the Priest

Source: Lavengro: The Scholar--the Gypsy--the Priest

“It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks-his pipe might fall out if he did.”

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Author:E. M. Forster

“Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.”

Men Home Games Lost Worst Golf Links Magnificent Englishmen Trifles Cabinets

Book:George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

“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.”

Want Humans Guy Human Beings Species Gentleman Englishmen Good Guy Suitable

Author:Louis Kronenberger

“An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.”

Men Reason Order Fighting Business Particular Customers Commerce Englishmen Accommodate Precedence

Book:Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.

Source: Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.

“There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been set forward by his assistance. ... He is indeed a man born for the good of mankind, and for the honour of his country. ... So I may thank God, that Dr. Wilkins was an Englishman, for wherever he had lived, there had been the chief seat of generous knowledge and true philosophy.”