(13 quotes found)
“An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.”
Austin O'Malley
“There is one thing about Englishmen, they won't fix anything till it's just about totally ruined. You couldn't get the English to fix anything at the start. No! They like to sit and watch it grow worse. Then, when it just looks like the whole thing has gone up Salt Creek, why, the English jump in and rescue it.”
Will Rogers
“We are Englishmen; that is one good fact”
Oliver Cromwell
“The state of things in India begins to assume somewhat of an alarming aspect. Englishmen taking up arms against Englishmen! Regiments arc called from Bengal, Bombay, and the Cape, to reduce the rebel army. Whereunto will this grow?”
Henry Martyn
“How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.”
George Bernard Shaw
“[But even with two Englishmen in the band, McCarthy and Hardy, they remain loyal to Glasgow.] We definitely see ourselves as a Glasgow band above anything else, ... It's not a massive place, but one of the great and inspiring things about Glasgow is you have all these characters who did things and they did them their own way, and they're still there and they kind of like say: 'You know, if we did it this way, you can probably do it as well.'”
Alex Kapranos
“If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog”
“An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only comfortable”
“What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?”
“To correct an Englishman's pronunciation is to imply that he is not quite a gentleman.”
