Englishmen Quotes

The Puritans failed miserably in their dealings with the Indians of New England, with scarcely a glimmer of kindness to illuminate black page after black page of cruelty and humiliation. There were many reasons that the Puritans were so much less successful with the Indians than were the Spaniards or the French or even the Englishmen. The Puritans insisted upon a high standard of religious devotion that the Indians were unable or unwilling to give. The Puritans lacked any way to integrate the Indians into their theocracy... nor were any Puritans specifically assigned to missionary tasks. The heart of the matter, though, is that conversion of the heathen was not one of the compelling motives--or justifications--for the Puritan settling of New England, as it was for the Spaniards in the Southwest.

It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm.

In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.

The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.

… that unhappy Act of Parliament which invested German settlers with the Rights of Englishmen before they knew how to use them.

There is tension all over the country. The party in Bengal has done substantial work. They have eliminated a few officers. The Englishmen are terrified. As a result, they have started sending their families to Britain. After some time, they will realise that they cannot exercise authority over India.

Englishmen must have an island.

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

An Englishman fears contempt more than death.

We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.

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

Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land.

It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.

Every good Englishman, abstracted from all regard for America, must oppose … being taxed by the British Parliament. For my own part, I am convinced that no argument … can be produced in support of this right.

The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.

The last great Englishman is low.

I would be quite willing personally to leave the whole country as a wilderness for the next half-century, but I fear that if Englishmen do not go there, Yankees will.

The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

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

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

No Englishman is ever fairly beaten

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

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