Englishman Quotes - Page 2

As an American married to an Englishman and living in France, I've spent much of my adult life trying to decode the rules of conversation in three countries. Paradoxically, these rules are almost always unspoken.
Pamela Druckerman / Writer
Conversation
France
Married
Unspoken
Adult
Rules
Adult Life
Countries
Englishman
Paradoxically
Spent
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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 / Explorer
Courage
Endurance
Heart
Notes
Rough
Should
Had
Bodies
Lived
Dead
Companions
Englishman
Must
Stirred
Tale
Tell
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You can always tell a man's nationality by introducing him to a beautiful girl. An Englishman shakes her hand; a Frenchman kisses her hand; an American asks her for a date; and a Russian wires Moscow for instructions.
Anna Karina / Film Actress
Beautiful Girl
Introducing
Moscow
Nationality
Shakes
Englishman
Frenchman
Instructions
Wires
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Charles Darwin sailed around the world for two years on the 'Beagle,' and he had quite a bit of interest in things like the iguanas of the Galapagos, even though they were primitive compared to your average Englishman.
Seth Shostak / Astronomer
Average
Primitive
Charles
Darwin
Englishman
Quite A Bit
Sailed
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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 / Filmmaker
Romantic
Both Sides
Important
Sides
Thinking
Two Sides
David
Side
Stiff
Disciplined
Englishman
Lean
Rather
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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 / Model
Boyfriend
Jealous
Remember When
Time Me Remember
Exchange
Englishman
Hugh
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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 / Film Director
Becoming
Cities
Joy
Wrestling
Life Education Best
Englishman
Gradually
Match
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The last thing an Englishman wants to hear is a man from Brussels trying to imitate his language - you want to hear a different point of view. You may not be able to understand the details, but you can understand the feeling.
Stromae / Singer-Songwriter
Brussels
Details
Point Of View
Englishman
Imitate
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Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.
Hervey Allen / Author
Aristocracy
Brilliant
Civilization
Departed
Leaving
Legend
Economic System
Englishman
Feudal
Frenchman
More Or Less
Passed
Rested
Slaves
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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 /
Australian
Complicated
Moon
Speechless
Arrive
Englishman
Incredibly
Ordering
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It's a funny thing when you finally have an excuse to get all of your favorite people from all corners of the globe together in one room for my wedding. Other than saying 'I do' to my hunky Englishman, that is the thing I am most excited about!
Brooke Baldwin /
Wedding
Corners
Excuse
Englishman
Favorite People
Funny Thing
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What is a seemingly conservative Englishman doing, leading the world in the mastery of a classically Spanish instrument? Debussy wrote some of the best Spanish music, and the only time he was ever in the country, he saw a bullfight which made him ill.
Julian Bream / Guitarist
Debussy
Ill
Mastery
Only Time
Best Time Music
Englishman
Instrument
Seemingly
Spanish
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'Notting Hill?' Does that poke fun at being British? Maybe it does. In 'Mickey Blue Eyes,' that's kind of the point: the clash of worlds, the unlikely combo of a respectable Englishman and a mob guy. If you take out the Britishness, you don't really have much.
Hugh Grant / Actor
Blue
Blue Eyes
Clash
Mickey
Poke
Respectable
Unlikely
Englishman
Mob
Worlds
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It's very hard to reflect properly when you're still playing but the hundreds one - when I got my 23rd in Kolkata - felt the most special because it broke a benchmark that had stood for a very long time. It felt good to do something no Englishman has done before.
Alastair Cook / Cricketer
Broke
Time Good Long
Time Good Done
Benchmark
Englishman
Hundreds
Properly
Reflect
Stood
Very Long Time
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It is an Englishman who turns out to be the real villain of 'The Moonstone.' By contrast, the three Indian priests who dedicate their lives to returning the jewel to its proper home in the temple, though they have nothing personal to gain by doing so, are positively heroic.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni / Author
Contrast
Heroic
Indian
Positively
Priests
Turns
Villain
Dedicate
Englishman
Gain
Jewel
Proper
Returning
Temple
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An Englishman bears with patience any ridicule which foreigners cast upon him. John Bull never laughs so loudly as when he laughs at himself; but the Americans are nationally sensitive and cannot endure that good-humoured raillery which jests at their weaknesses and foibles.
Isabella Bird / Writer
Bears
Endure
Foreigners
Ridicule
Sensitive
Bull
Cast
Englishman
Himself
John
Laughs
Loudly
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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 / Actor
Baton
Louisiana
Rouge
Weather
Englishman
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Funny thing about the volatile and biased French crowds. While they'd prefer to be cheering a countryman and giving his foreign opponent merry hell, if there was no Frenchman in the game, they'd always support a Continental player over an Englishman, an American, or an Australian.
Rod Laver / Tennis Player
Funny
Australian
Biased
Continental
Crowds
Giving
Merry
Player
Support
Prefer
Game
Cheering
French
Englishman
Funny Thing
Over
Opponent
Volatile
While
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New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches that, as an Englishman, I thought were from a bygone era or were a bit of poetic license with cop shows - the more you hang out with them, the more you realize how real that jargon is.
Theo James / Actor
New York
Cop
Handle
Jargon
License
Poetic
Poetic License
Real
Cliches
Englishman
Hang
Specific
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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 / Novelist
Annie
Couple
Father
Father In Law
Husband
Locked
Locked Up
Texas
Guns
Course
Englishman
Inherited
Marlin
Pistol
Rifle
Shotgun
Similar
Tight
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I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived. He lived in the 18th century; as you all know, he was an Englishman who was involved in the writing of American Declaration of Independence, the American Constitution, the French Constitution, wrote the great book called 'The Rights of Man' - commercial over.
Richard Attenborough / Actor
Independence
Century
Constitution
Declaration
Great Book
Paine
Men Great Man
Commercial
French
Englishman
Tom
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Who is my biggest inspiration? Wow... I really, without wanting to sound 'aw gee shucks,' I'd have to say my wife who taught a rather uptight Englishman what there is to be got out of life. Susan is my greatest inspiration. She has more integrity than anyone I know, and integrity is more important than anything for a happy and successful life.
Charles Shaughnessy /
Happy
Important
Inspiration
Integrity
Sound
Successful
Taught
Uptight
Wow
Greatest
Anyone
Aw
Biggest
Englishman
Gee
Got
Rather
She
Susan
Wanting
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