Englishmen Quotes - Page 8

• Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Language, States

  Mahatma Gandhi (2014). “Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation”, p.73, The Floating Press

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• Formal education in British India was remarkable for its lack of connection with its Indian environment. Like the African persuaded to cover his nakedness with a Mother Hubbard, we wore mental Mother Hubbards, and they were often a sad fit. Our textbooks had been compiled by Englishmen for English children, of whom there were none in my school and few in any school in India.

  Nayantara Sahgal

  Mother, Children, School

  Nayantara Sahgal (1963). “From fear set free”

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• However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, May, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

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• My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Heart, Rebel

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Useless, Language, Unnecessary

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

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• Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ideas, Liberty, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.165, Rajpal & Sons

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• The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Language, Cases, English Language

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.167, Courier Corporation

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• If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Country, War, Men

  "The Mind of Napoleon" by J. Christopher Herold, (p. 249), 1955.

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• The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

  Matthew Arnold

  Class, Heaven, Likes

  'Culture and Anarchy' (1869) ch. 3

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• He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.

  Brendan Behan

  Years, England, Born

  'Hostage' (1958) act 1

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• When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Tigers

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.134, Oxford University Press

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• The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Clever, Silly, Hats

  1904 Larry Doyle. John Bull's Other Island, act 1.

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• The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three [Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury], the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve.

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

  Teacher, Three, Wonderful

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• A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson

  Land, Feet, May

  Discovery (published 1964).

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• I have to laugh when the English claim they are such a wonderful nation. Everyone knows that Englishmen are really Germans, that the English kings were German, and that in Russia the emperors were either of German origin or received their education in Germany.

  Hermann Goring

  Kings, Russia, Laughing

  Remark on May 28, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Spiritual, Practice, Understanding

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.131, Hackett Publishing

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• Virtually the entire inflow was therefore Asiatic, and all but three or four thousand of that inflow originated from the Indian subcontinent... It is by 'black Power' that the headlines are caught, and under the shape of the negro that the consequences for Britain of immigration and what is miscalled 'race' are popularly depicted. Yet it is more truly when he looks into the eyes of Asia that the Englishman comes face to face with those who will dispute with him the possession of his native land.

  Enoch Powell

  Eye, Race, Land

  "Still to Decide" by Enoch Powell, Eliot Right Way Books, (p. 209), 1972.

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• I thinke it not amisse to forewarne you that you thrust as few wordes of many sillables into your verse as may be: and hereunto I might alledge many reasons: first the most auncient English wordes are of one sillable, so that the more monasyllables that you use, the truer Englishman you shall seeme, and the lesse you shall smell of the Inkehorne.

  George Gascoigne

  Smell, Use, May

  George Gascoigne, John W. Cunliffe (2012). “The Complete Works of George Gascoigne: Volume 1, The Posies”, p.468, Cambridge University Press

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• When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of literature. He also feels himself excused from the particular study of Shakespeare.

  Aubrey Beardsley

  Literature, Belief, Study

  "Under the Hill and Other Essays". Book by Aubrey Beardsley, 1904.

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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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• When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog-big as a donkey. ... I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio. ... I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere. ... Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.

  Ray Davies

  Country, Dog, Song

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• To me the soul of an Indian seemed as precious as the soul of an Englishman, and the Gospel as much for the Chinese as for the European.

  James Gilmour

  Soul, Chinese, Missionary

  James Gilmour (1892). “James Gilmour of Mongolia: His Diaries, Letters and Reports”

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• An Englishman's car is his castle on wheels.

  Simon Jenkins

  America, Car, Castles

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• The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.

  Edmund Barton

  Men, Doctrine, Equality Of Man

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• GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night: I thank my God for my humility.

  William Shakespeare

  Humility, Night, Odds

  William Shakespeare (2004). “King Richard III (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.36, Sparklesoup LLC

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