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“Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five hundred and another five thousand and yet another fifty thousand and still you may come across a further fifty thousand you have never heard of before, and nobody else either.”

May Stills Whole Use Remember Language Five Heard Thousand Hundred Average Fifty Vocabulary Englishmen

Author:George Mikes

“An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.”

Two Literature Drink Englishmen Dutch

Book:The True Born Englishman. A Satire. A New Edition

Source: The True Born Englishman. A Satire. A New Edition

“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.”

Soul Chinese Indian Missionary Englishmen

Book:James Gilmour of Mongolia: His Diaries, Letters and Reports

Source: James Gilmour of Mongolia: His Diaries, Letters and Reports

“An Englishman's car is his castle on wheels.”

World America Modern Car Wheels Castles Modern World Englishmen

Author:Simon Jenkins

“The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.”

Men Doctrine Englishmen Equality Of Man

Author:Edmund Barton

“Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun; The Japanese don't care to, the Chinese wouldn't dare to; Hindus and Argentines sleep firmly from twelve to one, But Englishmen detest a siesta.”

Care Sleep Sun Dog Mad Dare Don't Care Chinese Twelve Englishmen Detest Mad Dogs

Author:Noel Coward

“My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.”

Two Married Elders Englishmen Sister

Author:Bill Forsyth

“Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.”

Economic Civilization Slave Leaving Brilliant Legends Englishmen Aristocracy Economic Systems Departed Frenchmen Spaniards Feudal System

Author:Hervey Allen

“GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night: I thank my God for my humility.”

Knows Soul Night Born Alive Humility My Soul Odds Infant Englishmen Gloucester

Book:King Richard III (Sparklesoup Classics)

Source: King Richard III (Sparklesoup Classics)

“The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.”

Long Sex Englishmen

Author:James Agate

“...So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish to free the slaves; and, especially, his not freeing the slaves in 'loyal' Kentucky and other United States areas or even in Confederate areas occupied by United States troops, such as New Orleans.”

Two War States Wish United United States Saws Areas Slave Denial Civil War Two Things Loyal Troops Proven New Orleans Englishmen Kentucky Confederate Insincerity

Author:Sheldon Vanauken

“Tennis was a game invented by a woman named Samantha Tennis in 1839, in the village of Lobsworth, County of Kent, as a diversion for the wealthy and titled Englishmen of the region, who had nothing better to do at the time but drink, belch and wear funny clothes.”

Games Drink Clothes Tennis Regions Wealthy Village Englishmen County Diversion Kent Samantha

Book:YOU CALL IT SPORTS, BUT I SAY IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE!

Source: YOU CALL IT SPORTS, BUT I SAY IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE!

“I have no intention of watching undersized Englishmen perched on horses with matchstick legs race along courses planned to amuse Nell Gwynn.”

Courses Race Horse Intention Legs Englishmen Jockeys Matchsticks

Author:Gilbert Harding

“The Invitation, To Tom Highes What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles.”

Helping Honest Dog Being Honest Dull Toms Invitations Englishmen Lame Stiles

Author:Charles Kingsley

“What is unique about Drogheda is the very large number of Protestants in the garrison and the fact that it's commanded, by and large, by Englishmen, who have come over from the English Civil War and are fighting in Ireland, and Cromwell is extraordinarily savage against these... Drogheda, after all, was a Protestant”

War Facts Fighting Numbers History Unique Civil War Ireland Savages Englishmen Protestants Large Numbers Cromwell

Author:Ronald Hutton

“Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.”

Political Joy Culture Cities Becoming Wrestling Englishmen Becoming More Marxist Best Political Political Education

Author:Roland Joffe

“The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.”

Political Politics Subjects Concern Treats Affair Convinced Phrases Englishmen Foreign Affairs

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

“The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.”

Fit Infinite Almighty Englishmen Frenchmen

Book:War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943

Source: War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943

“I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.”

Young Married Britain Englishmen Cambridge

Author:Anne Stevenson

“An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.”

Purpose Enjoy Humorous Noble Englishmen

Author:A. P. Herbert

“How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.”

Book Hard Happiness Acknowledge Englishmen Chaps

Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

“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?”

Games Balls British Englishmen Rugby Oval

Author:Peter Pook

“That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization.”

Political Crime Civilization Prejudice Committed Labels Tonight Bias Englishmen

Author:John Amery

“In the early days of the December that my father was to die, my younger brother brought me the news that I was a Jew. I was then a transplanted Englishman in America, married, with one son and, though unconsoled by any religion, a nonbelieving member of two Christian churches. On hearing the tidings, I was pleased to find that I was pleased.”

Two Christian America Dies Father Church Son Brother Members Married News Atheist Jew Hearing Englishmen December Christian Church Tidings Younger Brother

Book:Hitch 22: A Memoir

Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir

“Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy!”

White Crazy Madness Jew Englishmen Frenchmen

Author:Tom Metzger

“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.”

Want Englishmen Scotsmen

Author:Sean Connery

“Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward.”

Wonder Steps Imagine Radio Tonight Afterlife Imagine That Listeners Qualified Englishmen

Author:John Amery

“What beefsteak is to Argentina, flamenco to Spain, cool reserve and self-control in all situations to an Englishman, what vodka is to a Russian and beer to a Bavarian, what money is to a Swiss, that is outdoor-life to an Australian. It is a noble mania, better than vodka, better than cool reserve, better than money.”

Self Humor Funny Situation Noble Beer Australia Self Control Reserves Spain Australian Englishmen Argentina Swiss Vodka Mania Flamenco Outdoor Life

Author:George Mikes

“Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.”

Life States Feelings Cinema Ironic Awkward Embarrassed Embarrassment Englishmen Uneasiness

Author:Colin Firth

“The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.”

Mind Doctors Saved Empires Englishmen British Empire Gin Gin And Tonic

Author:Winston Churchill

“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.”

Persons Doe Has Beens Done Inspiration Havens Englishmen

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“I think American men are more conscious of putting up a good impression. There's more of an earthiness to Englishmen. But Americans aren't afraid to come up and say, "Hi, I'd like to go out with you." Englishmen are far more sheepish about it.”

Thinking Men Conscious Come Up Impression Englishmen

Author:Sienna Miller

“This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry...I say to myself every day. What is going on while we sit here, while we go away to dinner or home to bed? Nearly, 1000 - Englishmen, Britishers, and the other is America...Everything else is swept away.”

World War Home America Path Terrible Bed Dinner War Of The Worlds Going Away Englishmen Slaughter Swept Away Infantry World War One

Author:Winston Churchill

“Old England is our home, and Englishmen are we; Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag in every sea.”

Home Known Sea England Tongue Flags Englishmen Old England

Author:Mary Howitt

“But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.”

Men Writing Long Found Genius Long Time Exception Latin Englishmen

Book:The English Novel

Source: The English Novel

“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.”

Knows Firsts Two Cold Hot Calm Weather Englishmen Haste Cloudy Windy

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler

“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.”

Should Heart Country Body Rich Should Have Notes Tales Dependent Endurance Companion Rough Exploration Englishmen Explorers Antarctica Rich Countries

Author:Robert Falcon Scott

“No Englishman is ever fairly beaten”

Inspiration Beaten Englishmen

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Englishmen have always loved Moliere.”

Englishmen

Book:Spectatorial Essays

Source: Spectatorial Essays

“It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions.”

World Wells Conditions Travel Expected Bags Carpet Englishmen

Book:Around The World in 80 Days

Source: Around The World in 80 Days

“Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?”

America Unhappy Englishmen

Author:E. B. White

“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.”

Ifs Men Doe Pleasure Determination Strive Englishmen

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“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.”

Doe Principles Englishmen

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Englishmen must have an island.”

Islands Englishmen

Book:The Crack-up

Source: The Crack-up

“One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.”

Thinking Matter Consciousness Sense Of Humor Englishmen Possessing

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“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.”

Thinking Seems Differences Vanity Englishmen Frenchmen

Book:Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

“I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.”

Thinking America Impossible Englishmen

Author:Charles Dickens

“The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.”

Evil Neglect Preparing Englishmen

Book:The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine

Source: The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine

“At twelve noon, The natives swoon And no further work is doneBut mad dogs and Englishmen, Go out in the midday sun.”

Sun Dog Mad Twelve Foreigners Englishmen Noon Mad Dogs

Author:Noel Coward

“[V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and colours of every varied dawn and eve are perpetually touching and turning it from clay to gold, or from gold to ivory. There is a line of woodland beyond a corner of my garden which is literally different on every one of the three hundred and sixty-five days. Sometimes it seems as near as a hedge, and sometimes as far as a faint and fiery evening cloud.”

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