American Quote by Ingrid Seward

“It is useful to know something of the manners of different nations, that we may be enabled to form a more correct judgment regarding…

— René Descartes

The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to be lumped…

— J. B. Priestley

I really love the combination of Israel and England. They are completely different. The British are very private and keep things to themselves, while…

— Steven Wilson

The Foreign Office works hard to remind people of local laws and customs as often they can be very different to British law.

— David Lidington

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose…

— Bayard Taylor

One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the…

— Judith Martin

In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's sweet and attractive and finishes off the cake. But…

— Amor Towles

No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.

— Vladimir Nabokov

While we like to think queueing is unique to British culture, the truth is that we are mere amateurs. The old Soviet Union turned…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

I'm not very good at standard English.

— James Nesbitt

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

— Anonymous

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

— Glen Duncan