| As the old ditty goes, it is only mad dogs and Englishmen who go out in the midday sun. |
| Englishmen were notoriously litigious, but that represented a willingness to submit to the arbitration of the king's courts. |
| Selectionist or adaptationist thinking was proposed by two Englishmen, Darwin and Wallace, and the first converts were also therefore British. |
| The English Bill of Rights of 1689 had only proclaimed the rights of Englishmen. |
| It was compassion and its absence, he said, which marked the difference between Englishmen and Bolsheviks. |
| The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland were terra incognita to almost all Englishmen, and most Lowland Scots. |
