Definition of Englishman

Englishman

A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England.

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Englishman Quotations

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
George Bernard Shaw

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
George Bernard Shaw

Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.
Ogden Nash

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
William Butler Yeats

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
Benjamin Disraeli

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
Katharine Hepburn

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
Alexis de Tocqueville

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.
Evelyn Waugh

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.
Sean Connery

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
Henry James

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
George Chapman

Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.
Robert Falcon Scott

Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy!
Tom Metzger

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
Daniel Defoe

In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me.
Colin Firth

The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.
Kabir Bedi

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.
Roland Joffe

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
Cecil Rhodes

That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization.
John Amery

Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward.
John Amery

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy.
Louis Kronenberger

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!
William Pitt

There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.
John Boorman

I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.
Anne Stevenson

Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do we get for it?
Henry Lawson

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.
Hervey Allen

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
A. J. Liebling

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
George Mikes

The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.
Junius

Life isn't all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education.
Thomas Hughes

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Englishman Translations

Englishman in Afrikaans is Engelsman
Englishman in Dutch is Engelsman
Englishman in Finnish is englantilainen
Englishman in French is anglais
Englishman in Swedish is engelsman

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