- Quotes by Arnold Toynbee
“America is a large, friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair”. - Quotes by Hunter Stockton Thompson
“America…just a nation of two hundred used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable”. - Quotes by Paul Theroux
“The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness”. - Quotes by Robert Louis
“For that is the mark of the Scot of all classes: that he stands in an attitude towards the past unthinkable to Englishmen, and remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation”. - Quotes by Laurence Sterne
“[Of the French] They are a loyal, a gallant, a generous, an ingeniousand good tempered people as is under heaven – if they have a fault, they are too serious”.
- Quotes by Gertrude Stein
“In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is”. - Quotes by Sydney Smith
“It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. [Of Scotland] That knuckle-end of England – that land of Calvin, oat-cakes and sulphur”. - Quotes by Percy Bysse Shelley
“Thou Paradise of Exiles, Italy!” - Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
“England and America are two countries divided by a common language. There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles”.
Tags: Arnold Toynbee, Countries And Their Peoples, George Bernard Shaw, Gertrude Stein, Hunter Stockton Thompson, Laurence Sterne, Paul Theroux, Percy Bysse Shelley, Robert Louis, Sydney Smith
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