American Quote by Austin O'Malley

Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of…

— Ian Fleming

What, then, is this new man, the American? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes. From this promiscuous…

— J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.

— George Mikes

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they…

— Mark Twain

Irish people never think we're Irish. Americans think we're European or French.

— Winston Marshall

The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is…

— Anonymous

... the English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them.

— M. E. W. Sherwood

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to be considered…

— Louis Kronenberger

The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English…

— William Hazlitt

Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England.

— Dodie Smith

Let us be French as the Americans are English.

— Henri Bourassa

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…

— Henry David Thoreau