Top 125 Englishmen Quotes & Sayings

I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world.

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.

Englishmen do like to get in a dress, any excuse.

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

Sometimes, however, the Gaelic blood asserts itself. The Frenchmen will then attack. But the French attacking spirit is like bottled lemonade. It lacks tenacity. The Englishmen, on the other hand, one notices that they are of Germanic blood. Sportsmen easily take to flying, and Englishmen see in flying nothing but a sport.

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.

Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.

After 'Mad Men,' I got offered various types of uptight Englishmen, which I wasn't interested in doing. I didn't want to repeat myself.

I have no intention of watching undersized Englishmen perched on horses with matchstick legs race along courses planned to amuse Nell Gwynn.

Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.

Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.

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.

Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.

You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right.

To be one of only three Englishmen to have scored in a World Cup finaI is amazing.

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.

If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know how to form a proper queue?

I think Englishmen or Northern Europeans in general are more naturally attracted to the lute than to the guitar, which always seems Spanish exotic - to our ears.

Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton.

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.

In England, the sovereignty resides exclusively in the person or individual who is king. All Englishmen are his subjects. And the highest peer in the realm... has no share in the sovereignty.

Englishmen have always loved Moliere.

We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.

To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.

I think American men are more conscious of putting up a good impression. There's more of an earthiness to Englishmen. But Americans aren't afraid to come up and say, "Hi, I'd like to go out with you." Englishmen are far more sheepish about it.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.

I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.

The Invitation, To Tom Highes What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles.

We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end.

For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.

All Englishmen talk as if they've got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated from the pips.

The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.

Englishmen have a genius for looking uncomfortable. Their feelings are terribly mixed up with their personal appearance.

Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely.

Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land.

The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and tradition.

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.

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.

So long as classical education and classical prejudices prevailed, educated Englishmen inevitably saw ancient Britain as an alien land.

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.

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.

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

Englishmen must have an island.

One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.

At twelve noon, The natives swoon And no further work is doneBut mad dogs and Englishmen, Go out in the midday sun.

The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

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

[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.

Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree.

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!

In 'A Room With a View,' you have three young Englishmen running around naked and laughing and whooping and jumping in the water. It's something the English don't apparently find troublesome.

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun; The Japanese don't care to, the Chinese wouldn't dare to; Hindus and Argentines sleep firmly from twelve to one, But Englishmen detest a siesta.

My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.

When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust.

In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.

German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.