Baffled Quote by J. B. Priestley

Canadians have an abiding interest in surprising those Americans who have historically made little effort to learn about their neighbour to the North.

— Peter Jennings

Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by…

— Timothy Garton Ash

Canadians have this weird way about them where we really stick together.

— Estella Warren

Compared to Americans, Canadians are often more gentle in their approach to things. They're much more apologetic. There's less room for conflict.

— Joseph Boyden

Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.

— Marshall McLuhan

But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they…

— William Pfaff

“Being a Canadian is confusing because you sound like an American, write like a Brit and throw in just enough French words to freak…

— Phonecallfromgod

Canadian is both harder and easier to explain. Nobody knows what it is even supposed to be, let far-out-alone what it actually is.

— Judith Merril

Canadians are like Americans, just less racist, violent, and ignorant.

— Dov Davidoff

Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense…

— Will Ferguson

“Americans are pushy, obnoxious, neurotic, crass - anything and everything - the full catastrophe as our friend Zorba might say. Canadians are none of…

— Maria Semple

The Canadians kind of look out for each other a little bit.

— Hannah Simone