“He looked like an Italian, was dressed like an Englishman, and had the independent air of an American--a combination which caused sundry pairs of feminine eyes to look approvingly after him, and sundry dandies in black velvet suits, with rose-colored neckties, buff gloves, and orange flowers in their buttonholes, to shrug their shoulders, and then envy him his inches.”
Louisa May Alcott
“We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution.”
William Bolitho
“An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.”
Mark Twain
“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.”
Sean Connery
“Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life”
Cecil Rhodes
“I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.”
Green Day
“Propose to any Englishman any principle or instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it.”
Charles Babbage
