Rose Macaulay Quotes

This sort of thing may be tolerated by the French, but we are British, thank God.

These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are.

North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.

I am a Londoner and I love my home. There are many things about this country which drive me crazy, but when I am in America, I feel wrong there.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.

Though I love my country I do not love my countrymen.

Like many foreign students when they go abroad, I was instantly thrust into a position of having to explain and defend my country. That is a very common predicament.

Foreigners are not like the people I am used to here.

You're more inclined to be cynical about your own country, and you romanticize it from the outside. And why not? It's much more interesting than thinking, 'Oh, everyone's struggling and normal.'

Everything in Asia is a culture shock, it's very different from North America, but it's great to be forced into a situation to meet new people and learn new techniques.

When you're abroad, you always miss your country.

You forget, living outside of a country, that the actions of the government are not the actions of the people.

Going to the U.A.E. for the first time was a real cultural shock. Everything was different. People didn't speak my language, it was all new, a huge change. But I loved it.

It took a while to get the support of British people as they wouldn't naturally want to support someone from another country.

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.

Every country needs another country to make fun of.

On the third day in India, I realized people were not suffering as much as I thought.

Do you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to encounter Americans." "But you are an American." "Incurably so, it seems.

Australia's not so bad with me, really, people are pretty cool with me at home, but in England it feels a little bit scary.

Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.

Americans should never come to Europe,' she said, and tried to laugh and began to cry, 'it means they never can be happy again. What's the good of an American who isn't happy? Happiness was all we had.

No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression.