Cultural Facade Quotes

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.

Australia is a country not so much of fulfillment as of theatrical expectation.

The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.

America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.

What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity?

Whatever Scotland was, it was not a matriarchy; whereas the United States was a profoundly matriarchal society - and much more feminine than would be suggested by all that male bravado. That was a front, and a misleading one at that; underneath the male swagger lay a passive acceptance of female dominance - a fact not always appreciated by outsiders.

One of the things that struck me as unique about Hollywood is that I never had bad meetings. There were all enthusiastic, but meaninglessly enthusiastic.