#englishman

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#anxiety #beneath #constantly #english #englishman

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#moral #only #thinks #uncomfortable

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car? ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#car #englishman #give #his #keep

I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#cambridge #englishman #every #i #lived

I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#englishman #i #like #sound

Life isn't all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education. ↗

— Thomas Hughes

#better #education #englishman #every #form

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day. ↗

— Roland Joffe

#becoming #best #between #ceased #city

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#dutch #englishman #fairly #families #maintain

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#alone #average #brother #crushed #desperately

That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization. ↗

— John Amery

#any #being #bias #civilization #come