“An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.” — George Chapman Quote

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

I am ashamed the law is such an ass.

We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.

Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward.

A lot of my therapy is with horses. I did a lot equine therapy, which at first - an Englishman trying to talk to a horse was just me rolling my eyes in a field for three days, but it eventually became amazing.

I'm a proud Brit and a proud Englishman.

What is a seemingly conservative Englishman doing, leading the world in the mastery of a classically Spanish instrument? Debussy wrote some of the best Spanish music, and the only time he was ever in the country, he saw a bullfight which made him ill.