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Englishman
«Propose to any Englishman any principle or instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it.»
Author: Charles Babbage
(Inventor, Mathematician)
| Keywords:
admirable, defect, directed, Englishman, impossibility, propose
«I have never met anyone in Ireland who understood the Irish Question, except one Englishman who had only been there a week»
«It is said, I believe, that to behold the Englishman at his best one should watch him play tip-and-run.»
«I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.»
«He looked like an Italian, was dressed like an Englishman, and had the independent air of an American--a combination which caused sundry pairs of feminine eyes to look approvingly after him, and sundry dandies in black velvet suits, with rose-colored neckties, buff gloves, and orange flowers in their buttonholes, to shrug their shoulders, and then envy him his inches.»
Author: Louisa May Alcott
(Author)
| Keywords:
approvingly, buff, buffs, buttonhole, colored, dandy, Englishman, gloves, inches, necktie, neckties, pairs, rose-colored, shrug, shrugged, shrugs, sundry, The Independent, velvet
«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.»
«He is an Englishman! / For he himself has said it, / And it's greatly to his credit, / That he is an Englishman!»
«If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
almost all, amazed, eliminate, Englishman, gambling, mostly, shared, smoking
«How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
contradiction in terms, Englishman, hearsay
