(492 quotes found)
“Europeans, like some Americans, drive on the right side of the road, except in England, where they drive on both sides of the road; Italy, where they drive on the sidewalk; and France, where if necessary they will follow you right into the hotel lobby.”
Dave Barry
“European imperialism long ago made Tahiti a distant suburb of Paris, the missionaries made it a suburb of Christ's kingdom, and the radio made it a suburb of Los Angeles”
Cedric Belfrage
“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato”
Alfred North Whitehead
“World War I, that tiresome European engagement that threatened to close down French couture.”
Caroline Seebohm
“San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities”
Cecil Beaton
“I like languages and I like different European cultures, because I happen to be Russian, Polish, Icelandic and Scottish.”
Peter Steele
“The U.S. administration and European countries should put pressure ... on the occupier and not the occupied and displaced Palestinian people.”
Ismail Haniyeh
“Europe, partly because of the sort of political miracle it accomplished on the European continent, has developed a very strong faith in international institutions, international legal mechanisms, as the key to international order, and have really begun to view military power as an illegitimate form of activity, but in any case, something that is to be avoided at almost all costs.”
Robert Kagan
“I'm proud to be able to call myself a European citizen, born in Italy.”
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
“Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American, someone who actually embodies all of those qualities [Michael Moore].”
Christopher Hitchens
