Huxley, I believe, was the greatest Englishman of the Nineteenth Century — perhaps the greatest Englishman of all time.
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H. L. Mencken in "Thomas Henry Huxley" in the Baltimore Evening Sun (4 May 1925)Thomas Henry Huxley
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The unquestionably greatest Englishman whom the present century has produced.
Richard Cobden
In the latter half of the nineteenth century and Englishman sat on a grassy bank near a stream. A very small girl lay near him, staring up at the sky. She had discarded a curious toy with which she had been playing, and now was murmuring a wordless little song, to which the man listened to with half an ear.
Lewis Padgett
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
George Bernard Shaw
Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.:
That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.Ogden Nash
If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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