Great saying by great authors Quote by Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve

...expatriated Americans, even Henry James himself, have always seemed to me somewhat anchorless, rudderless, drifting before thewind.

— Virginia Gildersleeve

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

— David H. Finnie

The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow,-one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Once upon a time there was a war...and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and…

— Denis Johnson

“The effect on James of being ignored by the people who stood to benefit the most from his work was to distance himself even…

— Michael Lewis

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“He embodied an enduring archetype: the obscure immigrant who comes to America, re-creates himself, and succeeds despite a lack of proper birth and breeding.”

— Ron Chernow

“He too was experimental and creatively disobedient, but he was still able to operate effectively in a fairly rigid hierarchy—something Americans do particularly well.”

— Robert L. O'Connell

“I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great…

— Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“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

“During the war some of the country’s sharpest minds had looked as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Every American autobiography, someone once said, is about one thing—escape. Look into the frightened heart of an American life, and you’ll find a compulsion…

— Frederick Weisel