2012 Quote by Martin Amis Download Open image ““The English feel schadenfreude even about themselves.”” — Martin Amis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare 2012 Britain England Schadenfreude
“Really, I’ve never understood why we haven’t thought of an English word for Schadenfreude.” — Gilly Macmillan Copy Share Image
“England has a peculiar way of making foreigners feel exhilaratingly free and depressingly alone.” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“It makes me sick,the blindness, deadness, out-of-dateness, stodginess and, yes, sheer jealous malice of the great bulk of England.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The indignities of stupidity, and the disappointments of selfish passion, can excite little pity.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The foundation of England's greatness is that Englishmen hate to look fools.” — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“When they arrive at the English meeting at 2:50 on a Monday, people look generally disgusted. At the end of the meeting, they look… — Patricia Maier Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, self-pity was so ingrained in people that nothing could persuade them to take joy out of living.” — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“(Note: Extreme sensibility of the French sometimes makes them difficult to deal with.)” — E.M. Delafield Copy Share Image
“we do sometimes pity creatures that have none of the feeling either for themselves or others.” — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
“What those years said of themselves was that they were the most joyous of years, and anyone who failed to rejoice was immediately suspected… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The English will never be forgiven for the talent for destruction they have always displayed when they get off their own island.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Yeah,' I said and started smoking another cigarette. Unless I inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“barrios; each barrio has two or three gangs, and all the gangs are theoretically” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“If we all downed tools and joined hands for ten minutes and stopped believing in money, then money would no longer exist. We never… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When I see a lot of young faces in the audience, it's just sort of sinking in how important that is. Because you're old… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“I was informed by my viscera that now was the time to put my arm around her shoulders. I ignored them.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
In her final months Princess Diana was being shat upon by the tabloids -- basically for sleeping with an Arab. When she died, these… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
If you feel you have a strong constituency among the young, you can really die happy, because the great unanswered question, the only valid… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“On Dreams Only one thing supersedes the importance of thinking about a better tomorrow. It's taking action today.” — Vincent Lowry Copy Share Image
“Follow the dreams of others and you will receive a paycheck. Follow your own dreams and you will never check your pay.” — Vincent Lowry Copy Share Image
This summer time in England has been like a dreaded one-night stand... Not very hot, extremely wet and gone before you know it. — Ryan Swain Copy Share Image
“Start with the observation that American law is not designed to catch and punish every instance of illegal conduct. Nothing short of a totalitarian… — Dale Carpenter Copy Share Image
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I told the American people that I'd cut taxes for middle class families, and I did. I told you I'd cut taxes for small… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2... priceless.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Romney sounds like he wants to be the nice uncle in a sitcom, Santorum sounds like he wants to be a twelfth-century archbishop, Gingrich… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
“There´s something about you and I´m finding it impossible to stay away” — E.L James Copy Share Image
