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30 quotes (Page 1 of 2 pages)An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Austin O'Malley
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England is paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.
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Robert Burton
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How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!
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Voltaire
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I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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W. Somerset Maugham
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Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.
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Bob Geldof
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It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.
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Albert Camus
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It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
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Samuel Johnson
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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
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George Orwell
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Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
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Eric Hoffer
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Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.
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Colonel Muhammar Qaddafi
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Pearl S. Buck
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Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
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George Bernard Shaw
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The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.
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Franklin P. Jones
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The Britons are quite separated from all the world.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Virgil
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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
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V. S. Pritchett
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The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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The English have a heavy hearted way of amusing themselves.
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Sully
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The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it.
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James Agate
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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
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Francis Bacon
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The French work to live, but the Swiss live to work.
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French Proverb
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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Samuel Johnson
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The Irish ignore anything they can't drink or punch.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Proverb
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The Jews have always been students, and their greatest study is themselves.
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Albert Goldman
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun