W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) English librettist of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo
The Englishman (from HMS Pinafore).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.”
Hostage (1958)
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Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright 1923–1964Related quotes
“In spite of all temptations
To belong to other nations,
He remains an Englishman!”
W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) English librettist of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo
H.M.S. Pinafore (1878)
Source: 1878, HMS Pinafore, act 2, also quoted in Dictionary of Quotations, p. 354 (2005)
“A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he was born.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
More likely attributable to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Misattributed
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803) German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic
Die Natur des Menschen bleibt immer dieselbe; im zehntausendsten Jahr der Welt wird er mit Leidenschaften geboren, wie er im zweiten derselben mit Leidenschaften geboren ward, und durchläuft den Gang seiner Thorheiten zu einer späten, unvollkommenen, nutzlosen Weisheit. Wir gehen in einem Labyrinth umher, in welchem unser Leben nur eine Spanne abschneidet; daher es uns fast gleichgültig sein kann, ob der Irrweg Entwurf und Ausgang habe.
Vol. 2, p. 186; translation vol. 2, pp. 266-7
Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit (1784-91)
“What then remains but that we still should cry
Not to be born, or, being born, to die?”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
The World (1629)
“I suspect he was never young, was just born straight forty years old.”
Chetan Bhagat book One Night @ the Call Center
Source: One Night @ the Call Center (2005), P. 31
José Maria Eça de Queiroz book Cartas de Inglaterra
O inglês cai sobre as ideias e as maneiras dos outros como uma massa de granito na água: e ali fica pesando, com a sua Bíblia, os seus clubes, os seus sports, os seus prejuízos, a sua etiqueta, o seu egoísmo – fazendo na circulação da vida alheia um incomodativo tropeço. É por isso que nos países onde vive há séculos é ele ainda o estrangeiro.
"Os Ingleses no Egipto"; "The English in Egypt" p. 160.
Cartas de Inglaterra (1879–82)
