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Englishman
«The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.»
«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.»
Author: Louis Kronenberger
(Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
People
| Keywords:
Englishman, good guy, suitable
«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.»
Author: Katharine Hepburn
| Keywords:
admired, an American, boyfriend, boyfriends, courted, Englishman, film star, Hollywood, Italian, Italian A, The Italian
«The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| Keywords:
American civilization, card, Englishman, friendliness, hearted, irony, keynote, poise, shirt, The Americans
«The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent, into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent, flings him»
«The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
Englishman, foreign, foreign affairs, phrase, subjects
«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.»
«The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.»
Author: Matthew Arnold
(Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
assert, bawl, bawled, bawling, Englishman, hiding place, issuing, perplex, working class
