Quotes to inspire and reflect

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths – they haven’t any.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this Great War for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Free speech isn't dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.

The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices.

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn’t thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early.

Some countries you love. Some countries you hate. Canada is a country you worry about.

The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs - except in England, of course.

Hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

The British nation is unique in this respect: they are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare, but the Bible made England.

In England we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite the police get involved.

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

I tell you Wellington is a bad general; the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead!

I speak two languages, Body and English.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

The French complain of everything, and always.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them since.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do something about them.

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to "the common good", but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

A cat will be your friend, but never your slave.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.