The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody can beam and warble while chewing pressed beef smeared with diabolical mustard. Nobody can exult aloud while ungluing from his teeth a quivering tapioca pudding.
An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
I’m a proud Brit and a proud Englishman.
Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.
An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
I’m an Englishman. What more can I say?
I am going to have a cup of tea, like any good Englishman.
An Englishman’s car is his castle on wheels.
Englishmen must have an island.
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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