Drifting Quote by Virginia Gildersleeve

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

— Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“This is also why Anglo-American achievements cannot be seen in isolation from their ambiguous consequences and victims elsewhere; why many Anglo-American assumptions, derived from…

— Pankaj Mishra

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

— David H. Finnie

The Englishman's strong point is his vigorous insularity; that of the American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes has its perils. The…

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

“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

“Could it be that Americans are a restless people, a mobile people, never satisfied with where they are as a matter of selection? The…

— John Steinbeck

You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.

— Pat Robertson

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

— Sara Sheridan

When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was.

— Anonymous

“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

There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry James, and I wish…

— Cynthia Ozick