Quotes of: Englishman Keyword

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

Germaine Greer

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

Tom Metzger

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

Daniel Defoe

The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian.

Diane von Furstenberg

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

Evelyn Waugh

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

Twilight of the Idols, Or, How to Philosophize With the Hammer

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

George Bernard Shaw

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.

Louis Kronenberger

I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense.

Teddy Thompson

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

Junius

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

Labels

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

Katharine Hepburn

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?

Henry Lawson

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

Jules Verne

Prince Feisal: You are an Englishman. Are you not loyal to England? T.E. Lawrence: To England, and to other things.

Lawrence of Arabia

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

Anne Stevenson

The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.

The English Patient

Like any good Englishman, he detests emotions and prefers a healthy dose of denial and tea.

The Real Meaning of Idioms

Athos was delighted to find he was going to fight an Englishman. We might say that was his dream.

The Three Musketeers

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.

Mike Myers

My father and mother emigrated to Canada in 1958, but there's nobody more English than an Englishman who no longer lives in England, and our home was a shrine to all things English.

Mike Myers