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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

~A. J. Liebling

Topics: About American Blind Englishman Food Leading Like Teaching

Keywords: Accept Cannot Communicate Directly How Often Say Simple Sometimes Very


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An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.

~A. P. Herbert

Topics: Englishman Except Himself Never Noble Purpose

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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.

~A. P. Herbert

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I remember when I first came to America, nobody had a clue what a black Englishman was. I was either South African or Australian to them.

~Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Topics: African America Australian Black Came Clue Either Englishman First Had Nobody Remember Remember When South South African Them I Remember

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An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.

~Alan Jay Lerner

Topics: Absolutely Englishman Him Speaking Way

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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.

~Alexis De Tocqueville

Topics: Above Anxiety Beneath Constantly English Englishman Eyes French Him His Inferiors No-One Raises Satisfaction Superior Want

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I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.

~Anne Stevenson

Topics: Britain Cambridge Englishman Every Lived Married Since Young

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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

Topics: Arrive Australian Complicated Englishman Fast Incredibly Just Might Moon Most Ordering People Speak Speechless Think Too Understand Well You

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The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

~Benjamin Disraeli

Topics: About Affairs Am Concern Convinced Englishman Foreign He Makes Phrase Subjects Treat Very Which I Am

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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.

~Billie Joe Armstrong

Topics: American Englishman Like Sound

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