“The Britons are quite separated from all the world.”
“The French work to live, but the Swiss live to work.”
“Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.”
“Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.”
“If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.”
“Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.”
“The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.”
“The English have a heavy hearted way of amusing themselves.”
“I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.”
“The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.”
“Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.”
“The Jews have always been students, and their greatest study is themselves.”
“There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.”
“Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.”
“The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.”
“Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.”
“It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.”
“The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it.”
“The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.”
“We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.”
“How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!”
“Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.”
“The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.”
“It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.”
“The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.”
“An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.”
“England is paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.”
“With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.”
“There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.”
“Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.”