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Category: History and Nations

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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."

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3. "As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable."

Albert Einstein

Other categories: 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

Other categories: Reality and Imagination

6. "The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them."

Jean Genet, "Prisoner of Love"

Other categories: Success and Fame

7. "History: An illusion caused by the passage of time."

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Other categories: Time and Passing

8. "History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."

George Santayana

Other categories: Truth and Falsity

9. "Italy is a poor country full of rich people."

Richard Gardner

Other categories: Richness and Money

10. "Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end."

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Other categories: Various

11. "The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes."

Stanley Kubrick

Other categories: Law and Crime

12. "English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did."

Malcolm Bradbury, "Stepping Westward"

Other categories: Various

13. "Patriotism ruins history."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Other categories: Patriotism

14. "Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon."

Benjamin Disraeli

15. "A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, (speech at Greenville, N.C., Feb 8, 1963)

Other categories: 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

17. "The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right."

Quentin Crisp

Other categories: Happiness

18. "Toilet paper too thin, newspapers too fat."

Winston Churchill, (on America)

Other categories: Various

19. "America is a mistake, a giant mistake."

Sigmund Freud

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes

20. "The English are probably the most tolerant, least religious people on earth."

David Goldberg

Other categories: 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

23. "We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise."

Terry Hands

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Manners and Ethics

24. "If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Letters on England"

Other categories: God and Religion

25. "Hell is a place where all the cooks are British."

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26. "The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Other categories: Peace and War

27. "In England there are sixty different religions, and only one sauce."

Francesco Caracciolo

Other categories: 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"

Other categories: 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"

Other categories: Authority, Government -:- Woman and Man

31. "Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy."

Benjamin Disraeli

Other categories: Human

32. "Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor."

Arnold Toynbee

Other categories: Various

33. "America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair."

Arnold Toynbee

Other categories: 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

Other categories: 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

Other categories: Human

39. "Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old."

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

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

42. "Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe."

Angela Carter

Other categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia

43. "I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version."

Don Delillo, "The Names"

44. "Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts--the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art."

John Ruskin, "St. Mark's Rest"

Other categories: Art and Culture

45. "France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams."

Thomas Carlyle, "History of the French Revolution"

Other categories: Authority, Government -:- Wit and Humor

46. "Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian."

Robert Orben

Other categories: Various

47. "Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact."

Marlene Dietrich, "Marlene Dietrich's ABC"

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

48. "I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together."

Charles Dickens

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

49. "Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there."

George Orwell, "The Lion and the Unicorn"

Other categories: 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"

Other categories: Freedom and Servitude

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