Quotes About Nationality

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 though everything occurred as they intended. The French plan everything whilst appearing to be having a party, and the Spanish Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well, God knows. Anyway

A German plans a month in advance what is bowel movements will be at Easter, and the British plan everything retrospect, so it always looks as though everything is good as intended. The French glad everything was to be going to be having a party, and the Spanish… Well, God knows.

American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything we experience in this country, and it made me glad I was born japanese.

Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

We had forgotten to say that Jacopo was a Corsican.

las italianas tienen a lo menos sobre las francesas la ventaja de ser fieles a su infidelidad

It occurs to me that I am America. I am talking to myself again.

I'll tell you the difference between our countries. Americans think life is serious but not hopeless; the English that life is hopeless but not serious.

Também sei dizer palavrão, amigo. Eu sou inglês. A gente fala palavrão sem medo. Aquele com B? A gente fala também: boceta boceta boceta bobocecetata.

What's the best part about living in Switzerland? No idea, but the flag is a big plus!

The problem with the English Patient is that to enjoy it, you have to be either English or patient.

I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.

I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.

Without question, so many people, throughout my life, never think of Puerto Rico as part of the United States.

an Italian can never be ignored, least of all when he has a grievance.

realized at that moment that I was British, but evidently not a Briton, and that fine differentiation was now very important; I

and I am attacking a wonderful Greek salad as viciously as any Turk who's just spent several weeks in London, where the food tastes like a desperately ambitious experiment.

How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

If you can speak three languages you're trilingual. If you can speak two languages you're bilingual. If you can speak only one language you're an American.

I think you're always fighting a losing battle when you're Scottish and I don't think that's right. I think the way that people look at Scottish football is wrong, but at the same time, we have to start proving it on the park and start showing it again.

In the midst of applying for American citizenship, of finally attempting to get my presidents in a row, I felt it incumbent upon myself to explore the national psyche in every way.

For me, psychologically, I am very much an Indian.

It seems to me psychologically I'm a Canadian.