Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes

I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful manners and I like most of the American voices. On the other hand I don't believe they have any God and their hats are frightful. On balance I prefer the Arabs.

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.

Every country has an aspect to it that rubs up people the wrong way.

British girls are as temperamental as Americans.

There's just kind of a sweetness about Canadians. Americans are a little more pushy, I mean, in a way that I enjoy - they're basically pushy because of their enthusiasm - we're a lot clumsier than other people.

You never can say too much in praise of your country and its inhabitants. Two nations in Europe are really almost ridiculous in their own exaggerated praises of themselves; these are the English and the French.

sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy

Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is no vice and no degradation in native African customs which can begin to touch the horrors thrust upon them by white masters. Drunkenness, terrible diseases, immorality, all these things have been gifts of European civilization.

Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.

But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think.

For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter's is much prettier. You may not realize its advantages until you're trying to breathe liquid methane.

I come more and more to the conclusion that one must take the side of the minority which is always the more intelligent one.

There are many non-intellectual countries; Australia is one of the few anti-intellectual ones.

The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.

If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.

We're Americans. I don't consider us to be evil, I just don't think we know any better. We're a really young culture. We're hillbillies, and the rest of the world sees us that way. I travel all over the world, and probably the only worse rednecks than us are the Australians. And they're an even younger country.

Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy, Canada is like an intelligent, 35 year old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson.

Far less envy in America than in France.

In spirituality the Americans are very inferior to us. But their society is very superior to ours.

American gentlemen are a cross between English and French men, and yet really altogether like neither. They are more refined and modest than Frenchmen, and less manly, shy, and rough, than Englishmen. Their brains are finer and flimsier, their bodies less robust and vigorous than ours. We are the finer animals, and they the subtler spirits. Their intellectual tendency is to excitement and insanity, and ours to stagnation and stupidity.

If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much.

An Englishman, methinks,--not to speak of other European nations,--habitually regards himself merely as a constituent part of theEnglish nation; he is a member of the royal regiment of Englishmen, and is proud of his company, as he has reason to be proud of it. But an American--one who has made tolerable use of his opportunities--cares, comparatively, little about such things, and is advantageously nearer to the primitive and the ultimate condition of man in these respects.

I'm Canadian. I think that's it. When you're a Canadian, you're always watching America from the outside, from afar.

To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.

Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it.