Quotes About Culture

Why had he ever gone abroad? It had unsettled him. He had been bored in Paris, yet he liked crepes Susette better than flapjacks; he liked leaning over the bridges of the Seine better than walking on Sixth Avenue; and he couldn't, just now, be very excited about the new fenders for the Revelation car. How was it that this America, which had been so surely and comfortably in his hand, had slipped away?

the youngsters in canoes were now singing My Old Kentucky Home. Zenith was still in the halcyon William Dean Howells days; not yet had it become the duty of young people to be hard and brisk, and knowing about radios, jazz, and gin.

He liked Ross Ireland; he found particularly amusing, very like his own cultural pretenses, the fact that since Ireland was totally unable to learn any language save Iowan, he thundered that English was enough to take anybody anywhere and that these fellows that talk about your having to know French if you're going to do political stuff in Europe are just trying to show what smart guys they are.

While he was bored by free verse and cubism, he thought rather well of Dreiser, Cabell, and so much of Proust as he had rather laboriously mastered.

Paris, that feminine and flirtatious refuge from reality.

Prohibition had turned drinking from an agreeable, not very important accompaniment to gossip into a craze.

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

It is the German who is so uncourteous to his verbs

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilization may be carried triumphantly forward.

We lose more women to marriage than war, famine, and disease.

In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.

everywhere I looked, Paris was an aesthetic banquet that fed my soul.

How to Be Parisian at the English bookstore on

Albert Einstein when he said, "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

Café Philosophe on rue de Temple in the Marais

I don't speak Japanese, I don't know anything about Japanese business or Japanese culture. Apart from sushi. But I can't exactly go up to him and say Sushi! out of the blue. It would be like going up to a top American businessman and saying, T-bone steak!

I have no idea what to say next. I don't speak Japanese, I don't know anything about Japanese business or Japanese culture. Apart from sushi. But I can't exactly go up to him and say Sushi! out of the blue. It would be like going up to a top American businessman and saying T-bone steak!

Ciao, I say casually, and flick my hair back. Si. Ciao. I could so be Italian. Except I might have to learn a few more words.

People drive by in their colorful convertibles with the roof down, looking all relaxed and friendly, as if you might stroll up to them while they're pausing at the light and start a conversation. It's the opposite of Britain, where everyone's in their own self-contained metal box, swearing at the rain.

London is one of the most fascinating, historic, amazing cities in the world!

We'll always have jazz

Además, todo el mundo sabe que los chinos viven más tiempo que nosotros, así que ¿cómo no va a ser saludable alimentarse de comida china? Y la pizza es mediterránea. Seguro que es más sana que muchas cosas que la gente toma en su casa.

The English are incapable of good grooming, unless it's a horse. - Elinor Sherman

I don't know anything about Japanese business or Japanese culture. Apart from sushi.