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1. "France is France and a grand place for Frenchman."

Harry S. Truman

2. "History doesn't repeat itself - historians merely repeat each other."

Anon.

3. "If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Art and Antiquity"

4. "Happy is the nation without a history."

Cesare Beccaria, "On Crimes and Punishments"

Quotations about: Happiness

5. "England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses."

John Florio, "Second Frutes"

6. "History keeps repeating itself because nobody listens."

Anon.

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

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Peace and War

8. "History isn't a single road, but a multitude of them."

Horace

9. "In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles."

David Ben-Gurion

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

10. "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"

Quotations about: Success and Fame

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

Anon.

Quotations about: Time and Passing

12. "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

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

Richard Gardner

Quotations about: Richness and Money

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Quotations about: Various

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

Stanley Kubrick

Quotations about: Law and Crime

16. "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"

Quotations about: Various

17. "Patriotism ruins history."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quotations about: Patriotism

18. "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

19. "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)

Quotations about: Life and Death -:- Various

20. "I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President."

Charlie Chaplin

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21. "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

Quotations about: Happiness

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

Winston Churchill, (on America)

Quotations about: Various

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

Sigmund Freud

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

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

David Goldberg

Quotations about: God and Religion

25. "The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English."

Henry Louis Mencken

26. "If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood."

Peter Handke

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

Terry Hands

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Manners and Ethics

28. "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"

Quotations about: God and Religion

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

Anon.

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Quotations about: Peace and War

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

Francesco Caracciolo

Quotations about: God and Religion

32. "A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards."

Karl Kraus, "Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths"

33. "An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination."

George Bernard Shaw, "John Bull's Other Island"

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

34. "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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Quotations about: Human

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

Arnold Toynbee

Quotations about: Various

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

Arnold Toynbee

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

38. "History, a distillation of rumour."

Thomas Carlyle, "History of the French Revolution"

39. "Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great."

Clement Attlee

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

40. "And what should they know of England who only England know?"

Rudyard Kipling, "The English Flag"

41. "The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters."

Robert Morley

42. "History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind."

Edward Gibbon

Quotations about: Human

43. "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"

44. "Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most."

Norman Mailer, "Barbary Shore"

45. "A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs."

German proverb

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

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

Angela Carter

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia

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

Don Delillo, "The Names"

48. "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"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

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

Thomas Carlyle, "History of the French Revolution"

Quotations about: Authority, Government -:- Wit and Humor

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

Robert Orben

Quotations about: Various

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