An English man does not travel to see English men.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.
A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
It's unimaginable to meet a Pole or a German who does not know about the history of their country. But lots of English people don't know the difference between Britain and England.
The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.