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I'm an Englishman who did a film on Mogadishu, 'Black Hawk Down.' Ridley Scott

When you arrive in L.A. as an Englishman, you might as well be on the moon. People just don't understand you if you speak too fast, and most people there think you're Australian. Ordering was incredibly complicated. I was speechless.

Ben Chaplin

I'm an Englishman who did a film on Mogadishu, 'Black Hawk Down.'

Ridley Scott

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.

George Chapman

For a brief moment, Ian Fleming made being an Englishman seem sexy, even to the French. He should have been awarded a knighthood, even possibly the Garter.

Michael Korda

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

Katharine Hepburn

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

Cecil Rhodes

A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

Jules Verne

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy.

Louis Kronenberger

If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.

Jackie Mason

Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.

Robert Falcon Scott

We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin rifle, similar to the one Annie Oakley had, and my husband has a .357 Magnum pistol. All those are locked up tight, of course. We have a couple of pellet guns that get more use than the real guns.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

I remember when I saw 'X-Men' the first time, I was living in England as an exchange student, and my first boyfriend, who's an Englishman, made me watch the movie... He was very jealous that I liked Hugh Jackman so much.

Tao Okamoto

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

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

Evelyn Waugh

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

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.

Daniel Defoe

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

Henry James

Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.

Ogden Nash

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

Germaine Greer

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

Anne Stevenson

The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.

A. P. Herbert

I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.

Billie Joe Armstrong

The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

Junius

Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do we get for it?

Henry Lawson

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

The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.

Kabir Bedi

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!

William Pitt

My father and mother emigrated to Canada in 1958, but there's nobody more English than an Englishman who no longer lives in England, and our home was a shrine to all things English.

Mike Myers

As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark to the Nobel Prizes for the years 1918 and 1919.

Charles Glover Barkla

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

A. J. Liebling

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.

George Mikes

We shot the first season of 'Hap and Leonard' towards the end of the summer in Louisiana, in and around Baton Rouge. If anyone's been to Louisiana or comes from Louisiana, they know what the weather's like down there at that time of year: it's unbearably hot for an Englishman.

James Purefoy

An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.

Alan Jay Lerner

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

Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.

Fidel Castro