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“It is good to be on your guard against an Englishman who speaks French perfectly; he is very likely to be a card-sharper or an attache in the diplomatic service.”

Speak Cards Englishmen Diplomatic Speaks French

Book:Mr. Maugham Himself

Source: Mr. Maugham Himself

“An Englishman never takes his collar off when he is writing. How can you expect him to show you his soul?”

Writing Soul Shows Englishmen Collars

Book:Harbours of Memory

Source: Harbours of Memory

“But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.”

Looks Lord Laughing Strange Absurd Englishmen Jeering

Author:Samuel Pepys

“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.”

Law Walks Horse Bones Muscles Circus Englishmen Legality

Author:Maxim Gorky

“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.”

Knows Funny Pleasure Steps Sadness Humorous England Englishmen Proverbial

Book:The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Source: The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

“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.”

Ifs Looks Force Objects Englishmen Abnormal

Author:James Agate

“We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin rifle, similar to the one Annie Oakley had, and my husband has a .357 Magnum pistol. All those are locked up tight, of course. We have a couple of pellet guns that get more use than the real guns.”

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Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell

“New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches that, as an Englishman, I thought were from a bygone era or were a bit of poetic license with cop shows - the more you hang out with them, the more you realize how real that jargon is.”

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Author:Theo James

“You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.”

Courses Literature Dog England Englishmen

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.”

Language Average Characteristics English Language Englishmen

Book:The Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated): The Provincial Lady Series, Zella Sees Herself, The War-Workers, Consequences, Gay Life, The Heel of Achilles, Humbug, Messalina of the Suburbs (Including Short Stories and Plays)

Source: The Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated): The Provincial Lady Series, Zella Sees Herself, The War-Workers, Consequences, Gay Life, The Heel of Achilles, Humbug, Messalina of the Suburbs (Including Short Stories and Plays)

“An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.”

Language English Language Englishmen

Author:Samuel Johnson

“When two Eglishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.”

Firsts Two Language Weather English Language Englishmen Windy

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton.”

Language Convinced Educated English Language Englishmen Eton

Author:E. M. Delafield