I am going to have a cup of tea, like any good Englishman.
An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.
My mother and my father had very, very strong Scots accents. We were Australian, and in those days when I was young, I spoke with a much more of an Australian accent than I have now. However I knew that if I went to England to become an actor, which I was determined to, I knew that I had to get rid of the Australian accent. We were colonials, we were Down Under somewhere, we were those little people Over There. But I was determined to become an Englishman. So I did.
I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
Even an Englishman was niver improved by bein' blown up.
Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.
A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.
We are articulate, but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence. But after the silence, he sometimes says something.
A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.
The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.
If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.
My favourite novel is Frederick Forsythe's Day Of The Jackal, the story about the unproven case of this apparent Englishman who was hired to assassinate De Gaulle.
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.
When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of literature. He also feels himself excused from the particular study of Shakespeare.
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.
There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.
The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian.
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.
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.