285 Quotes About Americans

Anything that's strange is no good to the average American. If it doesn't have Chicago plumbing, it's nonsense.

American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on.

men who so uneasily tolerate superiors patiently suffer a master, and show themselves proud and servile at the same time.

A good American makes propaganda for whatever existence has forced him to become.

McKisco's contacts with the princely classes in America had impressed upon him their uncertain and fumbling snobbery, their delight in ignorance and their deliberate rudeness, all lifted from the English with no regard paid to factors that make English philistinism and rudeness purposeful, and applied in a land where a little knowledge and civility buy more than they do anywhere else - an attitude which reached its apogee in the "Harvard manner" of about 1900.

We are not native. We have no generations of Americans behind us. We have roots elsewhere. We are looking in from the outside. To me, that seems to be perfectly natural.

In America, people with pre-existing mental health issues have access to firearms but not healthcare. Thanks, Republicans!

Americans live in a twilight world between a sense of loss and a sense of resigned acceptance.

To Americans, either/or means both.