American people Quote by Daniel Hannan

“It has also been the peculiar lot of our country to be visited by the worst kind of English travellers.”

— Washington Irving

“the people in this country who feel most like foreigners to each other are English people who’ve just arrived and the ones who have…

— Paul Scott

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.

— Evelyn Waugh

“To be a mass tourist, for me, is to become a pure late-date American: alien, ignorant, greedy for something you cannot ever have, disappointed…

— David Foster Wallace

“England has a peculiar way of making foreigners feel exhilaratingly free and depressingly alone.”

— Elif Shafak

“I felt inquisitive, keyed up with interest and excitement that foreign surroundings always induced in me, and in a sense I felt at home,…

— Anonymous

“While travelling to several countries over the years it appears we, no-matter from which culture we are searching or striving for redemption.”

— Barry O'Ryan

“An American is insubmissive, lonely, self-educated, and polite.”

— Thornton Wilder

“He was a privileged tourist in a primitive country: flatteringly curious, unknowingly insulting, quite certainly unable to survive if left to his own devices.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“In his Letters from an American Farmer, first published in 1782 in English and translated soon after into French, Crevecoeur described his adoptive country…

— Simon Anholt

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

“Contrary to a widespread assumption that has crept back into Anglo-American political jargon, few derive pleasure from handouts:”

— Tony Judt