No Englishman is ever fairly beaten
It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable to domestic solacement.
An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.
I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
The last great Englishman is low.
I am going to have a cup of tea, like any good Englishman.
I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
Who else but an Englishman could invent an oval ball.
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike. It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.
Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.
A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.
How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.
An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them.
Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
I'm an Englishman. What more can I say?
An Englishman hath three qualities, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his friend, nor to be dared by any.
Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.