The English Quotes for Whatsapp and Faceooks Status
Stands the church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?
Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) British poet
English life, while very pleasant, is rather bland. I expected kindness and gentility and I found it, but there is such a thing as too much couth.
S. J. Perelman (1904-1979) American humorist
The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English essayist
The English are probably the most tolerant, least religious people on earth.
Rabbi David Goldberg (b. 1939) Minister of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London
I should like my country well enough if it were not for my countrymen.
Horace Walpole (1717-1797) English writer
To be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive class there is.
Ogden Nash (1902-1971) American poet
He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
H. G. Wells (1866-1946) British author, social thinker
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British statesman, writer
They are like their own beer: froth on the top, dregs at the bottom, the middle excellent.
Voltaire (1694-1778) French philosopher, author
One has often wondered whether . . . there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class.
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) English poet, critic
It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs — except in England, of course.
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) British novelist
The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardor.
Karl Marx (1818-1883) German social philosopber, revolutionary
Whenever he met a great man he grovelled before him and mylorded as only a free-born Englishman can do.
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) English author
Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.
The Devil, Man and Superman George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic
You can get the English to do anything if you put it to them the right way. The trouble with the English is they try all the wrong ways first.
John Masefield (1878-1967) British poet, playwright
Now I understand how it is that they form a great nation. It is merely because they stand and let you thump them until you are tired, and then they proceed to do what they intended to do from the first.
H. Seton Merriman (1862-1903) English novelist
The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning; it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.
Salvador de Madariaga (1886-1978) Spanish writer, critic, diplomat
How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy.
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) English author
The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.
Arthur Murphy (1727-1805) Irish dramatist
The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
A. R Herbert (1890-1971) British author, politician
Continental people have sex lives; the English have hot-water bottles.
George Mikes (b. 1912) Hungarian-born British humorist
Cool, and quite English, imperturbable.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet
The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
Alexander Woollcott (1887-1943) American columnist, critic
The Englishman has all the qualities of a poker except its The Englishman occasional warmth.
Daniel O’Connell (1775_1847) Irish nationalist politician
Stoicism, thesublimest kind of stupidity. Modesty, the proudest kind of groveling.
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) French novelist
Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
Germaine Greer (b. 1939) Australian feminist writer
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg) (1772-1801)Germanpeot
But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) English diarist
