America Quote by Herman Melville

I get the sense that the British do not like to look at things on the bright side of life. Maybe it has something…

— Ana Patricia Botin

“In the internal decoration, if not in the external architecture of their residences, the English are supreme. The Italians have but little sentiment beyond…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“What fools American can be for England”

— Charles Finch

What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

— George Bernard Shaw

It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it.

— Boris Johnson

Brits have a peculiar sense of humour. I love it.

— Katie Hopkins

My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be…

— Edith Wharton

“This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands of European peasants and poor…

— Mary McCarthy

Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.

— Philip Larkin

I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated fromlong housekeeping,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The family which takes its mauve an cerise, air-conditioned, power-steered and power-braked automobile out for a tour passes through cities that are badly paved,…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England is so…

— D. H. Lawrence