Englishmen Quotes - Page 9

• [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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• From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom.

  Heinrich Heine

  Boredom, Insulting, England

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• When the Englishman speaks of national wealth he means the number of millionaires in the country.

  Oswald Spengler

  Country, Mean, Numbers

  Oswald Spengler (1967). “Selected Essays”

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• If we had to take a million immigrants in, say Zulus, next year, or Englishmen, and put them up in Virginia, what group would be easier to assimilate and would cause less problems for the people of Virginia?

  Pat Buchanan

  Virginia, Years, People

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• Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to be able to tell a good lie in answer to a charge.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Lying, Soldier, Able

  Ford Madox Ford (2012). “Parade's End”, p.77, Vintage

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• Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles.

  John Wycliffe

  Law, Tongue, Christ

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• It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time to time and behave in certain fixed ways that even a baboon could master, like Englishmen dressing for dinner in the tropics.

  Wilfrid

  Dinner, Way, Sanity

  "In Love with Daylight". Book by Wilfrid Sheed, 1995.

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• In other words, the problem of empire-building is essentially mystical. It must somehow foster the impression that a man is great in the degree that his nation is great; that a German as such is superior to a Belgian as such; an Englishman, to an Irishman; an American, to a Mexican: merely because the first-named countries are in each case more powerful than their comparatives. And people who have no individual stature whatever are willing to accept this poisonous nonsense because it gives them a sense of importance without the trouble of any personal effort.

  Felix Morley

  Country, Powerful, Men

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• Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five hundred and another five thousand and yet another fifty thousand and still you may come across a further fifty thousand you have never heard of before, and nobody else either.

  George Mikes

  Vocabulary, Average, Use

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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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• ...So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish to free the slaves; and, especially, his not freeing the slaves in 'loyal' Kentucky and other United States areas or even in Confederate areas occupied by United States troops, such as New Orleans.

  Sheldon Vanauken

  War, Kentucky, Two

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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