Nationalities And Nationalism

(222 votes)   The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.

Franklin P. Jones

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(207 votes)   The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it.

James Agate
1877-1947) British Author, Critic

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(203 votes)   Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill and calling for larger spurs and brighter beaks. I fear that nationalism is one of England's many spurious gifts to the world.

Richard Aldington
1892-1962, British Writer

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(197 votes)   There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(193 votes)   Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(170 votes)   The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(139 votes)   England is paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.

Robert Burton
1576-1640, British Clergyman, Scholar

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(123 votes)   Bulls get rich, bears get rich, but pigs get slaughtered An Irishman is never at his best except when fighting.

Irish Proverbs
Sayings of Irish Origin

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(119 votes)   Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

Pearl S. Buck
1892-1973, American Novelist

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(112 votes)   Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(110 votes)   It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.

Fyodor Dostoevski
1821-1881, Russian Novelist

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(109 votes)   There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

Sir James M. Barrie
1860-1937, British Playwright

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(101 votes)   The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(98 votes)   The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(87 votes)   The Britons are quite separated from all the world.

Virgil
c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet

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