Quotes of Nationality - somelinesforyou

“ The English have a heavy hearted way of amusing themselves. ”

- Unknown

“ I find that the Americans have no passions; they have appetites. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ England is paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women. ”

- Robert Burton

“ If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts. ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted. ”

- Dean William R. Inge

“ The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it. ”

- Albert Camus

“ It is easier for a camel to pass through they eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God. ”

- Bible

“ Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. ”

- Brendan Behan

“ The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity. ”

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

“ There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make. ”

- James M. Barrie

“ There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ The Irish ignore anything they can't drink or punch. ”

- Unknown

“ Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world. ”

- Lord Byron

“ The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it. ”

- James Agate

“ The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis. ”

- Franklin P. Jones

“ The Britons are quite separated from all the world. ”

- Virgil

“ How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think! ”

- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire

“ Our true nationality is mankind. ”

- H.G. Wells

“ When it comes to generosity, the spirit of service to our fellow human beings regardless of nationality or race or creed, I risk incurring the sin of pride by saying no nation exceeds our own. ”

- Richard F. Schubert

“ Someone born in Brazil is an American. Anyone born on the western hemisphere is an American. American is not a nationality. ”

- Karen Allen

“ Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich. ”

- Robert Frost

“ Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. ”

- Pearl S. Buck

“ Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. ”

- Pearl Buck

“ Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. ”

- E. J. Hobsbawm

“ How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think! ”

- Voltaire
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