Englishmen Quotes - Page 9

• My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, Language, British

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.328, Rajpal & Sons

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• My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Political, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.101, A&C Black

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• My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hurt, Matter, Language

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

  Evelyn Waugh

  Tourists, Likes, Traveller

  Evelyn Waugh (1930). “A Bachelor Abroad: A Mediterranean Journal”

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• Cheat? Good heavens, this is an amateur cricket match amongst leading prep schools, I'm an Englishman and a schoolmaster supposedly setting an example to his young charges. We are playing the most artistic and beautiful game ever devised. Of course I'll cunting well cheat. Now, give me my robe and put on my crown. I have immortal longings in me.

  Stephen Fry

  Beautiful, School, Games

  Stephen Fry (2010). “The Liar”, p.303, Random House

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• Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.

  James Joyce

  Horse, Bulls, Horns

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• Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is good ale.

  George Henry Borrow

  Beer, Names, Ale

  George Henry Borrow (1851). “Lavengro: The Scholar--the Gypsy--the Priest”, p.345

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• The last great Englishman is low.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Lasts, Lows

  'Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington' (1852) st. 3

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• [The] prevailing reason at this time is, that the Act of Parliament is against the Magna Charta, and the natural rights of Englishmen, and therefore, according to Lord Coke, null and void.

  Thomas Hutchinson

  Rights, America, Null

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• Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest against our share in the destruction of Germany. A month ago Europe was a peaceful comity of nations; if an Englishman killed a German, he was hanged. Now, if an Englishman kills a German, or if a German kills an Englishman, he is a patriot, who has deserved well of his country.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, War, Europe

  Bertrand Russell (1994). “Prophecy and Dissent, 1914-16”, p.7, Psychology Press

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• I am going to have a cup of tea, like any good Englishman.

  Brian Jones

  Tea, Cups, Aviation

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If a working class Englishman saw a bloke drive past in a Rolls-Royce, he'd say to himself "Come the social revolution and we'll take that away from you, mate". Whereas if his American counterpart saw a bloke drive past in a Cadillac he'd say "One day I'm going to own one of those". To my way of thinking the first attitude is wrong. The latter is right.

  Kerry Packer

  Encouragement, Attitude, Thinking

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• The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sarcastic, Heart, Broken

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.68

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• It was during the eighteenth century - a period of boastful satisfaction with the nice balances within the English constitution - that Englishmen came to accept the Whig view of the utility of an armed citizenry. The armed citizen was not only affirmed to be protecting himself but, together with his fellows, provided the ultimate check on tyranny.

  Joyce Lee Malcolm

  Nice, Views, Balance

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• Who else but an Englishman could invent an oval ball.

  Peter Pook

  Balls, Oval, Rugby

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• Germans, Frenchmen and Englishmen can say of themselves: "I am the state." I cannot say that. In Russia only the people in the Kremlin can say that. All other citizens are nothing more than human material with which they can do all kinds of things.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Russia, People, Citizens

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Home, Golf, Men

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.3702, e-artnow

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• Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Language, Brahmins, English Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

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• Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Civilization, People, Disease

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.18, Penguin Books India

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• Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.

  V. S. Pritchett

  School, Eye, Games

  "The Tale Bearers: English and American Writers" by Random House, (p. 95), 1980.

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• No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Government, British Soldiers, Matter

  Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

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• The Englishman foxtrots as he fox-hunts, with all his being, through thickets, through ditches, over hedges, through chiffons, through waiters, over saxophones, to the victorious finish; and who goes home depends on how many the ambulance will accommodate.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Home, Saxophone, Foxes

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1924). “Distressing dialogues”

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• The reason why Englishmen are the best husbands in the world is because they want to be faithful. A Frenchman or an Italian will wake up in the morning and wonder what girl he will meet. An Englishman wakes up and wonders what the cricket score is.

  Barbara Cartland

  Girl, Morning, Husband

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Doe, Strive

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• An Englishman will take you into a large room, beautifully proportioned, and will point out to you that it is white- all over white- and somebody will say what exquisite taste. You know in your own mind, in your own soul, that it is not taste at all˘that is the want of taste˘that is mere evasion. English music is white and evades everything.

  Edward Elgar

  White, Soul, Mind

  Edward Elgar, Percy Marshall Young (1968). “A future for English music, and other lectures”

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