Englishman Quotes

“I like to see an angry Englishman," said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

“A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

“Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.”
― Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library

“He knew what they said of him locally: Oh, he likes to keep himself to himself. The phrase was descriptive, not judgemental. It was a principle of life the English still respected. And it wasn't just about privacy, about an Englishman's home—even a pebbledash semi—being his castle. It was about something more: about the self, and where you kept it, and who, if anyone, was allowed to fully see it.”
― Julian Barnes, The Only Story

“It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul.”
― Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things

“I have always thought it bad manners to let one's fingers stay too long in another man's snuffbox.”
― Anna Freeman, The Fair Fight

“If you wanted to show that someone was a good chap, the essence of a good and clean Englishman, you would say that he was an athlete.”
― David Lagercrantz, Fall of Man in Wilmslow

“He was a good average Englishman who had slipped.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

“The English are so silent. (p.96)”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“The fraudulent electrical utility company in conjunction with the corrupt sheriff taught me that an Englishman's home is not his castle”
― Steven Magee

“I am an Englishman living in the USA researching astronomy frauds and supporting the Hawaiian’s protecting their sacred lands.”
― Steven Magee

“The one thing the English can’t stand is someone getting above themselves.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Operation Jihadi Bride: My Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS - The Incredible True Story