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I'm an Englishman. What more can I say?

I'm an Englishman. What more can I say?

Alan Sugar
Englishmen
Source: www.mirror.co.uk

Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?

E. B. White
America, Unhappy, Englishmen

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

Bertrand Russell
Common Sense, Common, Englishmen

It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Taste, Formidable, Englishmen
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “English traits”, p.115

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

Noel Fielding
Dresses, Excuse, Englishmen

The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.

Mahatma Gandhi
Language, English Language, Englishmen
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.

Mahatma Gandhi
Two, India, Englishmen
Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.25, Penguin Books India

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Englishmen, Tigers
Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.134, Oxford University Press

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.

Lafcadio Hearn
Beautiful, Believe, Englishmen
Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.105, tredition

There is a peculiarity in the countenance, as everybody knows, which, though it cannot be described, is sure to betray the Englishman.

George Henry Borrow
Betray, Englishmen, Countenance
George Henry Borrow (1848). “Gypsies of Spain”, p.19

Even an Englishman was niver improved by bein' blown up.

Finley Peter Dunne
Englishmen
'Revolution'. Collected in Louis Filler (ed) The World of Mr Dooley (1962).

Englishmen must have an island.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Islands, Englishmen
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.45, New Directions Publishing

The last great Englishman is low.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Lasts, Lows, Englishmen
'Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington' (1852) st. 3

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