46 Quotes About Englishmen


  • Author Jim Harrison
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    There's always some smart ass Englishmen coming over here and telling us we're mean and vulgar. I agree. But they showed their hand way back during the Irish Potato Famine as instinctual Nazis.

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  • Author Edward St. Aubyn
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    He was just one of those Englishmen who was always saying silly things to sound less pompous, and pompous things to sound less silly.

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  • Author John le Carré
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    For a long moment, while Brock stood off observing them, Ned and Barley appraised one another as only Englishmen can who are of the same height and class and shape of head.

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  • Author Ford Madox Ford
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    Old Campion had once said he believed - he positively believed, with shudders - that Christopher desired to live in the spirit of Christ. That had seemed horrible to the general, but Mark did not see that it was horrible, per se... He doubted, however, whether Christ would have refused to manage Groby had it been his job. Christ was sort of an Englishman and Englishmen did not as rule refuse their jobs... They had not used to; now no doubt they did.

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  • Author Clive Barker
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    All this talk of necromancy was just a morbid veil drawn over the filthy truth of the matter. Poor Elise! Stuck with a broken-down husband, who knew no better way to please than to give her over to an Englishman for an occasional pleasuring. Of all things, an Englishman! As if the English knew anything about making love.("Haeckel's Tale")

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  • Author James Agate
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    The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.

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