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The English smile under any circumstances, are public-spirited and polite, but colonisers,
The wealthy English are less fashion-obsessed and less ostentatious than wealthy Americans
Comfortable railway carriages, divided into classes
We never see this kind of personal assiduity in the USA
everything is dingy in appearance
I have been so used all my life to see things fresh and clean-looking, that I cannot get accustomed to the London dinge
nothing can exceed the kindness with which we have been received here….
They never sew, or attend, as we do, to domestic affairs, and so live for social life and understand it better.
All the persons whose names I have mentioned to you give one a decided impression not only of ability and agreeable manners, but of excellence and the domestic virtues.
Upon all topics we are accustomed to think, perhaps, with more latitude, religion, politics, morals, everything.
things are managed in a scrupulously English manner
our simple breakfast DRESS is unknown in England.
Americans enjoy a much nearer intercourse than other foreigners, in the literary, scientific, and even social circles.
Everything here is inflexible as the laws of the Medes and Persians
My cook comes up to me every morning for orders, and always drops the deepest curtsey
I am never shown into a room with a mirror
Persons talk to you whom you do not know, for no one is introduced, as a general rule.
the English habit seems to be to suffer a few people to do up a great part of the talking
The old and the middle-aged are more attended to here than with us, where the young are all in all.
They never like France, and a republic of any kind still less
the professional and mercantile class, is here entirely conservative
I begin to see the difference between France and us. Here they are accustomed to BE governed. WE are accustomed to GOVERN
,,,certainly the most aggressive, tough, and vigorous people the world has seen
Here we have the two necessary traits in the character of a great people: the love and the habit of civil liberty and religious conviction and independence
To speak the truth in word and action, to the verge of bluntness and offense--and with more relish sometimes because it is individually obnoxious and unlovely--is an English trait
The nation became, per force, sailors--.. adventurers, discoverers--hardy, ambitious, seeking food from the sea and wealth from every side.
… a society of ranks and degrees, orders of nobility and commonalty, a fixed social status, a well-ordered, and often attractive, permanent social inequality
it must be owned that England has pursued her magnificent career in a policy often insolent and brutal, and generally selfish
English character is losing its insularity, is more accessible to foreign influences
primogeniture is one of the stable and, curiously enough, one of the democratic institutions of society.
the excessive refinement andelaboration of trifles, the minuti of reflection, the keenness of analysis
I get on charmingly with the English nobility and sufficiently well with the gentry, but the upper servants strike terror to my soul
the British footman has relaxed a trifle since we were last here
If Colin were a Don Juan, surely he would be a trifle more ardent, for there is no tropical fervour in his matter-of-fact caresses.
it always give me a warm glow in the region of the heart, to see the supremacy of the dog in England
"Do you want to know," I asked one of them, "whether I am a polygamist?" "No, sir," he said very quietly.
after three hours of charming silence I found myself in London
London reporters are supposed to look at a man's personal appearance. In America we never bother with that. We simply describe him as a "dynamo."
Mitterand, discrete, ambiguous, machiavelic, is one of the symbols of this irresponsible, deceitful (more than undisciplined), people
They don't kiss in public, the slightest thing shocks them and arouses their indignation.
...the English have adopted the habit of shooting first,,,
instinctive conservatism of the French peasant, which is in such direct and tough antagonism with the feverish socialism of the French artisan.
Europeans in general have always tended to be more cynical than Americans, less sanguine
East Asians tend to underestimate their abilities
East Asians tend to underestimate their abilities, with an aim toward improving the self and getting along with others.
The performers were all humorous, frisky fellows, who loved to cut capers in private life; but as soon as they were arranged for the dance, they conducted themselves like so many mutes at a funeral.
male crying is more accepted in Latin and Mediterranean cultures
the usual respectable French shopkeepers, bakers and laundresses
The clerks are French, and, like most French people, are in a bad temper till they have eaten their lunch. ....a nasty, sour- faced, interfering, little man--a typical French official
It is not a figure of speech, it is a mere statement of fact to say that a French cook will spit in the soup
without that fierce individuality and malice of the French.
I've had even sixpences off Japs, and blackies, and that. They're not so bloody mean as what an Englishman is.
the men do not usually swear in front of the women
The English are a conscience-ridden race, with a strong sense of the sinfulness of poverty
‘it has always been hard to import things into France.’
The people of thy country," replied the Quaker, "are too full of their bows and compliments
An Englishman, as one to whom liberty is natural, may go to heaven his own way, Yet...no person can possess an employment either in England or Ireland unless he be ranked among the faithful…
the little familiarity the men of this country have with the ladies
...where the nobles are great without insolence, though there are no vassals; and where the people share in the Government without confusion.
This custom, which begins, however, to be laid aside, appears monstrous to Germans, vainly puffed up with their extraction.
In France the title of marquis is given gratis to any one who will accept of it
All the clergy here are very much upon the reserve, and most of them pedants.
As far as publicity goes, watch out for the English because they're the best.
In some religions - those of China, Japan and ancient Greece, say - belief is indistinguishable from practice, amounting to little more than piety, ritual, and customary morality
Italians are kind and carefree, chauvinist and passionate
For Americans, childhood and adolescence should be a time of happiness.
Germans read widely.... every year 70 000 new books are published in Germany .. Germany is second only to the United States in the number of books published annually
The American woman is admirable. Not only does she always maintain her easy yet combative elegance and her clear and lively beauty, but she also has a wide education, is open to different ways of thinking, and is sensitive to nuances.
most Frenchmen are extremely broadminded about the mention or portrayal of sex
French society has in many ways retained a rigid and archaic structure in which male domination and female subjection are essential.
The young are immersed in a society which is tending to become permissive
.. the same make and form is found in all, eyes stern and blue, yellow hair, huge bodies, but vigorous only in the first onset.
In their equipment they show no ostentation..The most glaring disgrace that can befall them, is to have quitted their shield..
they judge it altogether unsuitable to hold the Gods enclosed within walls, or to represent them under any human likeness
this people cannot brook repose.. they demand and enjoy that war-horse of theirs, with that victorious javelin dyed in the blood of their enemies
They raise their villages in opposite rows, but not in our manner with the houses joined one to another. Every man has a vacant space quite round his own..
they are contented with one wife.. nobody turns vices into mirth there, nor is the practice of corrupting and of yielding to corruption...And more powerful with them are good manners..
In social feasts, and deeds of hospitality, no nation upon earth was ever more liberal and abounding... Their manner of entertaining their guests is familiar and kind.
Neither are such enmities unappeasable and permanent
The pomp of tedious and elaborate monuments they condemn, as things grievous to the deceased
Young men fling themselves naked and dance amongst sharp swords and the deadly points of javelins.. ..playing at dice is one of their most serious employments
Of their other slaves they make not such use as we do of ours..
They shift from land to land; and, .. parcel out the whole amongst particulars according to the condition and quality of each.
To continue drinking night and day without intermission, is a reproach to no man.
..the love of freak which the English delight to indulge ..an English appetite for action and heroes ..a narrow and very English mind..
The practical common-sense of modern society, the utilitarian direction which labor, laws, opinion, religion take, is the natural genius of the British mind.
The brutality of the manners in the lower class appears in the boxing, bear-baiting, cock-fighting, love of executions, and in the readiness for a set-to in the streets..
The French say that the English women have two left hands
The English delight in the antagonism which combines in one person the extremes of courage and tenderness.
The French say that Englishmen in the street always walk straight before them, like mad dogs.
The people have that nervous bilious temperament.. The English game is ..a rough tug without trick or dodging, till one or both come to pieces
Their mind is not dazzled by its own means, but locked and bolted to results.
They are bound to see their measure carried, and stick to it through ages of defeat.
They are impious in their scepticism of a theory, but kiss the dust before a fact.