How hard it is for Americans, even Americans of goodwill, not to consider themselves the center of the universe. —Simone de Beauvoir More about this quote Tags: USA americans self-centeredness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are. —Gertrude Stein More about this quote Tags: americans suspicion friendliness foreigners Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The Americans, who are the most efficient people on earth, . . . have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on a conversation without giving a moment's reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication. —W. Somerset Maugham More about this quote Tags: sex conversation americans business cliche Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Tags: americans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it. —Alexis de Tocqueville More about this quote Tags: americans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American. —Daniel Webster More about this quote Tags: americans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries? —Edith Wharton More about this quote Tags: americans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. —Franklin D. Roosevelt More about this quote Tags: americans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Americans never quit. —General Douglas Macarthur More about this quote Tags: americans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: americans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses. —George Will More about this quote Tags: americans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: americans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way. —Henry David Thoreau More about this quote Tags: americans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them. —Henry James More about this quote Tags: americans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States. —J. Bartlett Brebner More about this quote Tags: americans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email