- Quotes by Quentin Crisp
“I don’t hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned”. - Quotes by Sidonie-Gabrielle Claudine Colette
“In our part of the world, as you well know, they say raw meat is for cats and the English”. - Quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong”. - Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
“France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams”. - Quotes by Marquis Domenico Caracciolo
“In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce”. - Quotes by Byron Lord George Gordon
“Italia! Oh Italia! thou who hast, The fatal gift of beauty”

- Quotes by John Buchan
“You have to know a man awfully well in Canada to know his surname”. - Quotes by Bill William Bryson
“There are certain idiosyncratic nations that you quietly come to accept when you live for a long time in Britain. One is that British summers used to be longer and sunnier. Another is that the England football team shouldn’t have any trouble with Norway. A third is the idea that Britain is a big place. This last is easily the most intractable”. - Quotes by Gerald Brenan
“Spain, since the loss of its Catholic faith, has been above all else a country in search of an ideology”. - Quotes by Otto von Bismarck
“The Russians do not possess the kind of self-restraint that would make it possible for us to live alone with them and France on the continent”.
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