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1. "England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses."
John Florio, "Second Frutes"
2. "History keeps repeating itself because nobody listens."
3. "As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable."
Albert Einstein
Quotations about: Peace and War
4. "History isn't a single road, but a multitude of them."
Horace
5. "In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles."
David Ben-Gurion
Quotations about: Reality and Imagination
Jean Genet, "Prisoner of Love"
Quotations about: Success and Fame
7. "History: An illusion caused by the passage of time."
Quotations about: Time and Passing
8. "History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."
George Santayana
Quotations about: Truth and Falsity
9. "Italy is a poor country full of rich people."
Richard Gardner
Quotations about: Richness and Money
10. "Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Quotations about: Various
11. "The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes."
Stanley Kubrick
Quotations about: Law and Crime
Malcolm Bradbury, "Stepping Westward"
Quotations about: Various
13. "Patriotism ruins history."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quotations about: Patriotism
Benjamin Disraeli
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, (speech at Greenville, N.C., Feb 8, 1963)
Quotations about: Life and Death -:- Various
16. "I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President."
Charlie Chaplin
Quentin Crisp
Quotations about: Happiness
18. "Toilet paper too thin, newspapers too fat."
Winston Churchill, (on America)
Quotations about: Various
19. "America is a mistake, a giant mistake."
Sigmund Freud
Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes
20. "The English are probably the most tolerant, least religious people on earth."
David Goldberg
Quotations about: God and Religion
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21. "The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English."
Henry Louis Mencken
22. "If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood."
Peter Handke
Terry Hands
Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Manners and Ethics
François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Letters on England"
Quotations about: God and Religion
25. "Hell is a place where all the cooks are British."
26. "The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Quotations about: Peace and War
27. "In England there are sixty different religions, and only one sauce."
Francesco Caracciolo
Quotations about: God and Religion
28. "A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards."
Karl Kraus, "Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths"
29. "An Irishman’s heart is nothing but his imagination."
George Bernard Shaw, "John Bull’s Other Island"
Quotations about: Reality and Imagination
30. "There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings."
Sarah M. Grimke, "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes"
Quotations about: Authority, Government -:- Woman and Man
31. "Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy."
Benjamin Disraeli
Quotations about: Human
32. "Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor."
Arnold Toynbee
Quotations about: Various
Arnold Toynbee
Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy
34. "History, a distillation of rumour."
Thomas Carlyle, "History of the French Revolution"
35. "Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great."
Clement Attlee
Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy
36. "And what should they know of England who only England know?"
Rudyard Kipling, "The English Flag"
37. "The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters."
Robert Morley
38. "History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind."
Edward Gibbon
Quotations about: Human
Rudyard Kipling, "Life's Handicap"
40. "Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most."
Norman Mailer, "Barbary Shore"
41. "A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs."
German proverb
Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity
42. "Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe."
Angela Carter
Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia
43. "I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version."
Don Delillo, "The Names"
John Ruskin, "St. Mark's Rest"
Quotations about: Art and Culture
45. "France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams."
Thomas Carlyle, "History of the French Revolution"
Quotations about: Authority, Government -:- Wit and Humor
46. "Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian."
Robert Orben
Quotations about: Various
47. "Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact."
Marlene Dietrich, "Marlene Dietrich's ABC"
Quotations about: Manners and Ethics
48. "I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together."
Charles Dickens
Quotations about: Manners and Ethics
George Orwell, "The Lion and the Unicorn"
Quotations about: Peace and War
50. "A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else."
George Bernard Shaw, "John Bull’s Other Island"
Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude