Success Quote by Pankaj Mishra

“The generations of lives, experiences, and voices of marginalized and silenced Americans offer an array of diverse interpretations of U.S. history that have largely…

— Clarence Lusane

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

— Anne Fadiman

“Yes, the Americans and the British were alike in some things. They were surface people, skimming over past history, picking out the interpretations that…

— Helen MacInnes

“this very year last past (supernaturally deficient in originality) rapped out theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to…

— Charles Dickens

“British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any”

— Charles Dickens

America in the 1800s isn't quite the historical mystery hotbed as the same period in the country it bested in the War of Independence,…

— Sarah Weinman

“Americans were known for a zealous and often immoderate attachment to the United States and all it represented.”

— David H. Finnie

“of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have…

— Charles Dickens

“What fools American can be for England”

— Charles Finch

“year last past (supernaturally deficient in originality) rapped out theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English…

— Charles Dickens

The most important lesson of American history is the promise of the unexpected. None of our ancestors would have imagined settling way over here…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?

— E. B. White