- Quotes by Edna O’Brien
“Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. it is a state of mind as well as an actual country. It is being at odds with other nationalities, having a quite different philosophy about pleasure, about punishment, about life, and about death. At least it does not leave one pusillanimous”. - Quotes by Robert Morley
“The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own France, a country which we have always judged to be much too good for them”. - Quotes by Jessica Mitford
“Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don’t stand for election, they run for office. If a person says he’s sick, it doesn’t mean regurgitating; it means ill. Mad means angry, not insane. Don’t ask for the left-luggage; it’s called a check-room. a nice joint means a good pub, not roast meat”. - Quotes by Henry Miller
“Ihave never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen”.
- Quotes by Alice Duer Miller
“I am American bred, I have seen much to hate here – much to forgive, But in a world where England is finished and dead, I do not wish to live”. - Quotes by George Mikes
“Whatever else an Italian may lack, he has an Ego. Sometimes two. It is nice to think that even the poorest Italian may possess two Egos while even the richest Englishman, as a rule, has none. Continental people have sex lives. The English have hot water bottles. Switzerland, though lovely, is very full of the Swiss”. - Quotes by Arthur Marshall
“The French are tremendous snobs, despite that rather showy and ostentatious Revolution”. - Quotes by Thomas Mann
“The German is the eternal student, the eternal searcher, among the peoples of the earth”.
Tags: Alice Duer Miller, Arthur Marshall, Countries And Their People, Edna O'Brien, George Mikes, Henry Miller, Jessica Mitford, Robert Morley, Thomas Mann
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