(29 quotes found)
“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
“We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution.”
William Bolitho
“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
“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
“From this amphibious ill-born mob beganThat vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman.”
Daniel Defoe
“You may be the most liberal Liberal Englishman, and yet you cannot fail to see the categorical difference between the responsible and the irresponsible classes.”
D.H. Lawrence
“An Irishman fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers”
Charles Caleb Colton
