Englishmen Quotes - Page 11

• I cannot believe that the killing of 2,000 Englishmen at New Orleans qualifies a person for the various difficult and complicated duties of the Presidency.

  Henry Clay

  Believe, New Orleans, Complicated

  "Seventh president a mass of contradictions" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. December 16, 2008.

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• By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Views, Culture, Birth

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• The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Village, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion”, Clarendon Press

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• It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Language, Britain

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• ... it takes a great deal to produce ennui in an Englishman and if you do, he only takes it as convincing proof that you are well-bred.

  Margaret Halsey

  Proof, Produce, Ennui

  Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

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• to the Indian, politics are what the weather is to an Englishman. Politics are an introduction to a stranger on a train, they are the standard filler for embarrassing silences in conversation, they are the inevitable small talk at any social gathering.

  Santha Rama Rau

  Weather, Silence, India

  Santha Rama Rau (1945). “Home to India”

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• Deploring change is the unchangeable habit of all Englishmen. If you find any important figures who really like change, such as Bernard Shaw, Keir Hardie, Lloyd George, Selfridge or Disraeli, you will find that they are not really English at all, but Irish, Scotch, Welsh, American or Jewish. Englishmen make changes, sometimes great changes. But, secretly or openly, they always deplore them.

  Raymond Postgate

  Scotch, Important, Sometimes

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• I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.

  Josephine de La Baume

  Thinking, Style, Irony

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• A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!

  Barbara Chase-Riboud

  Racism, United States, Generations

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• In England "The Day After," though unpopular with viewers, seems to have confirmed the average Englishman's mindless prejudice against Kansas. Shortly after the film portrayed that state being turned into an overused barbecue pit by nuclear weapons, support for British nuclear weapons rose a full percentage point.

  Emmett Tyrrell

  Average, Kansas, Rose

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• Louise de Keroualle, being a Frenchwoman from the French court, was feared by most Englishmen for how she might influence their king, and that fear quickly turned to hatred.

  Susan Holloway Scott

  Kings, Hatred, Might

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• In truth, no men on earth can cheer like Englishmen, who do so rally one another's blood and spirit when they cheer in earnest, that the stir is like the rush of their whole history, with all its standards waving at once, from Saxon Alfred's downwards.

  Charles Dickens

  Cheer, Character, Men

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.6639, Delphi Classics

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• Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Beautiful, Believe, Persons

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.105, tredition

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• The Sudanese have delighted me, not only in their generosity and simplicity, but also in their tendency to take tea with milk and not to hesitate to dunk biscuits in it. As an Englishman, you can imagine the feeling of fraternal closeness that this activity has generated.

  Tom Allen

  Generosity, Simplicity, Feelings

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• The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ruffles, England, Shirts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “English traits”, p.89

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• There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits theevidences of large property, as if after all it needed apology. But the Englishman has pure pride in his wealth, and esteems it a final certificate. A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls: if you have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and horses?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Horse, Apology

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.268, Graphic Arts Books

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• A seashell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish ofthe men. The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, England, Wave

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.212

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• If we claim heritage in Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, we also acknowledge that it was for liberties guaranteed Englishmen by sacred charters our fathers triumphantly fought. While wisely rejecting throne and caste and privilege and an Established Church in their new-born state, they adopted the substance of English liberty and the body of English law.

  Chauncey Depew

  Father, Law, Church

  Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1910). “Oration and memorial addresses”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Language, Brahmins, English Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

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