- Quotes by Paul Gallico
“No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute”. - Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
“All races have produced notable economists, with the exception of the Irish, who doubtless can protest their devotion to higher arts”. - Quotes by William Faulkner
“The Swiss…are not a people so much as a neat clean solvent business”. - Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“An Englishman shows no mercy to those below him in the social scale, as he looks for none from those above him; any forbearance from his superiors surprises him, and they suffer in his good opinion”. - Quotes by Margaret Drabble
“England’s not a bad country. It’s just a mean, cold, ugly, divided, tired, clapped-out, post-imperial, post-industrial slag-heap covered in polystyrene hamburgercartons”.
- Quotes by Roddy Doyle
“The Irish are the niggers of Europe, lads. An’ Dubliners are the niggers of Ireland…An’ the northside Dubliners are the niggers o’ Dublin. – Say it loud, I’m black an’ I’m proud”. - Quotes by James Patrick Donleavy
“To more than a few, Ireland remains a glowing sweet emerald vision having the fifteenth beer over some bereft bar counter at there a.m., in some outskirt corner of San Francisco, Hawaii, Boston, or the Bronx”. - Quotes by Rhys Davies
“Sewn on, so to speak, like a patch of different material to England’s robe of state, Wales nevertheless has succeeded in retaining its own texture and colour”. - Quotes by Countee Cullen
“What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black, Women from loins I sprang , When the birds of Eden sang?”
Tags: Countee Cullen, Countries And Their Peoples, James Patrick Donleavy, John Kenneth Galbraith, Margaret Drabble, Paul Gallico, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rhys Davies, Roddy Doyle, William Faulkner
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