Americans
Quotes on Americans
I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer
For other nations, Utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
Henry Kissinger (b. 1923) American adviser on international affairs
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) British author
Only in America … do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedalpushers and mink stoles — and with opinions on every subject under the sun.
Philip Roth (b. 1933) American novelist
Since the earliest days of our frontier irreverence has been one of the signs of our affection.
Dean Rusk (b. 1909) American diplomat
Americans are rather like bad Bulgarian wine: they don’t travel well.
Bernard Falk (1882-1960) British author
Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.
Joan Didion (b. 1934) American writer
