There are few virtues which the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
The American might be defined as a newspaper-reading animal.
You may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections.
Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.
The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun; The Japanese don't care to, the Chinese wouldn't dare to; Hindus and Argentines sleep firmly from twelve to one, But Englishmen detest a siesta.
The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
America is very generous, but it's also a bit wacky, you know.
Can Israelis be wistful? It is not the characteristic we usually associate with them; more typically they are said to be tough, sweet, angry, thoughtful, demanding - not wistful.
If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much.
The Scots are very hospitable; almost as hospitable as the Americans.
The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.
Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.
You know the Dutch, they're always a bit funny... some of them.
Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.
