Englishmen Quotes

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

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.

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.

We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.

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.

To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.

Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.

We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end.

I am now in Gibraltar. It is a large place and there does not seem to be room in this letter, in which to express my feelings about Moors in bare legs and six thousand Red-coats and to hear Englishmen speak again.

My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.

Englishmen have always loved Moliere.

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.

In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.

I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world.