Nationality Quotes

“The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.”

“No Englishman is ever fairly beaten”

“The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.”

“England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.”

“The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.”

“A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.”

“We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.”

“I read in a newspaper that I was to be received with all the honors customarily rendered to a foreign ruler. I am grateful for the honors; but something within me rebelled at that word 'foreign'. I say this because when I have been in Canada, I have never heard a Canadian refer to an American as a 'foreigner'. He is just an 'American'. And, in the same way, in the United States, Canadians are not 'foreigners', they are 'Canadians'. That simple little distinction illustrates to me better than anything else the relationship between our two countries.”

“I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.”

“I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!”