#englishman

It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#cale #destruction #easier #easy #english-quote

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested. ↗

— Hervey Allen

#brilliant #civilization #departed #each #economic

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one. ↗

— Sean Connery

#am #englishman #ever #i #i am

The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman. ↗

— Junius

#englishman #liberty #palladium #political #press

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#course #england #englishman #except #find

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#about #american #blind #englishman #leading

Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#club #convinced #englishman #every #exclusive

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never! ↗

— William Pitt

#american #arms #country #down #englishman

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

— Anne Stevenson

#cambridge #englishman #every #i #lived

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life. ↗

— Cecil Rhodes

#englishman #first #life #lottery #prize