Englishmen Quotes

“Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely.”

“You Englishmen,’ said Herr Wurter. ‘You are all the same. Wherever you are you behave as if you were at home and your word was law.”

“Deploring change is the unchangeable habit of all Englishmen. If you find any important figures who really like change such as Bernard Shaw Keir Hardie Lloyd George Selfridge or Disraeli you will find that they are not really English at all but Irish Scotch Welsh American or Jewish. Englishmen make changes sometimes great changes. But secretly or openly they always deplore them.”

“New Englanders began the Revolution not to institute reforms and changes in the order of things, but to save the institutions and customs that already had become old and venerable with them; and were new only to a few stupid Englishmen a hundred and fifty years behind the times.”

“Englishmen did not speak to strangers on trains ...”

“Englishmen who came here had the spirit of close kinsmen in all they did”

“When two Englishmen meet their first talk is of the weather.”

“Ireland is a fatal disease fatal to Englishmen and doubly fatal to Irishmen.”

“One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humour.”