Agnes Repplier Quotes

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.

I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they're misrepresented through their politicians.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

It is well known that German intellectuals are reluctant to agree with French intellectuals and the French are reluctant to agree with the German.

We have no concern with South America. We can have no well-founded political sympathy with them. We are sprung from different stock.

The French are people who think otherwise.

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.

Everywhere I go in America, when they learn I'm from France, the first thing they ask me is if I'm a huge Jerry Lewis fan. I've never been able to figure that out.

That's only in America. We don't have French doors in France.

I think Americans have always been pretty outspoken. I always found that if you had emotions in England, it's like, 'Here's a cup of tea.'

People live in their part of the Union, and if they don't travel a lot, then there is a tendency to believe that the other parts of America couldn't possibly be as American as their part. You can see it in the way people in the South scrunch up their faces when they hear words like 'New York,' 'Chicago,' and 'challah.'

Asian fans chase me and shout; it is different in England.

America is the land of the hustler: it's bigger, bolder, flasher, more in your face, whereas England's more about attention to detail - trying to be refined and classy, and I think a lot of people in the urban scene in this country have had trouble accepting that.

I don't want to return to France; France doesn't tempt me at all. I like England.

I understand more when I travel why people believe that the French are arrogant.

As a nation, we English tend to be self-deprecating, looking down on ourselves. We're insular but also flexible, whereas in Germany, it's a case of besser wissen - we know better. That's very Deutsch. People are never frightened to tell you what you're doing wrong, in a way that would never happen in England.

The English are very exotic to me.

Elizabeth’s entire body started to tremble as his lips began descending to hers. and she sought to forestall what her heart knew was inevitable by reasoning with him. “A gently bred Englishwoman,” she shakily quoted Lucinda’s lecture. “feels nothing stronger than affection. We do not fall in love.” His warm lips covered hers. “I’m a Scot,” he murmured huskily. “We do.

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

The difference of the English and Irish character is nowhere more plainly discerned than in their respective kitchens. With the former, this apartment is probably the cleanest, and certainly the most orderly, in the house.... An Irish kitchenis usually a temple dedicated to the goddess of disorder; and, too often, joined with her, is the potent deity of dirt.

One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.

England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.

Each time I visit Japan, I am reminded of how Canadian I am and how little racial connection matters.