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.

There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.

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

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?

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.