Englishman Quotes

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.

If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.

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.

The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.

An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do we get for it?

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

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.

The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.

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

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.

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.

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

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.

The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me.

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

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

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.

I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.

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