Into Motivation

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 ... Read More

Quotes by Walter Carruthers Sellar "Holland is a low-lying country full of low, lying people whose main object in life is to deceive the English by holding Dutch auctions, displaying Dutch courage, and talking Double-Dutch". Quotes by Charles Louis de Secondat "The English are a busy people. They haven't time to become polished". Quotes by Sir Walter Scott "O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my ... Read More

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 ... Read More

Quotes by Hugh MacDiarmid "Whatever Scotland is to me, Be it aye part o'a' men see, O' Earth and o' Eternity". Quotes by Dame Rose Macauley "Owing to the weather, English social life must always have largely occurred either indoors, or, when out of doors, in active motion". Quotes by Alan Jay Lerner "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain". Quotes by Fran Lebowitz "[Of Paris] If you're going there you would do well to remember this: no matter how politely or distinctly you ask a Parisian ... Read More

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 ... Read More

Quotes by Sir John Betjeman "Think of what our Nation stands for, Books from Boots' and country lanes, Free speech, free passes, class distinction, Democracy and proper drains". Quotes by Maximillien de Bethnune "Ils s'amusent tristement. The English take their pleasures sadly". Quotes by Louis de Bernieres "Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and downfall of your civilization. A German plans a month in advance what his bowel movements will be at Easter, and the British plan everything in retrospect, so it always looks as ... Read More

Quotes by Horace "Greece, once overcome, overcame her wild conquerer and brought the arts into rustic Latium". Quotes by Thomas Hood "Holland... lies so low they're only saved by being damned". Quotes by Katharine Hepburn "First God made England, Ireland and Scotland. That's when he corrected his mistakes and made Wales". Quotes by Christine Johann Heinrich Heine "The French and the Russians have shared out the land, Britannia rules the oceans; We reign unchallenged in the realm, Of dreamy abstract notions". Quotes by Margaret Halsey "Listening to Britons dining ... Read More