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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


#compromise #englishman #god #idea #know

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.


George Bernard Shaw


#moral #only #thinks #uncomfortable

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


George Bernard Shaw


#car #englishman #give #his #keep

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


Anne Stevenson


#cambridge #englishman #every #i #lived

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


Cecil Rhodes


#englishman #first #life #lottery #prize

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


#both #both sides #david #disciplined #englishman

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


#better #education #englishman #every #form

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


#becoming #best #between #ceased #city

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


#cale #destruction #easier #easy #english-quote

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


#affairs #am #concern #convinced #englishman






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