Quotes Tagged With :englishmen

He cursed himself for having assumed the weather would be sunny. Perhaps it was the result of evolution,....

The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists.

There comes a moment for all of us when our childhood ceases to be an excuse. In your case, I would say....

This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak—the....

You Englishmen,’ said Herr Wurter. ‘You are all the same. Wherever you are you behave as if you were....

Really, it was my fickleness, I sometimes think, that they found unendurable. If I had restricted myself....

Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent....

In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans,....

You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless,....

New Englanders began the Revolution not to institute reforms and changes in the order of things, but....