Famous quotes containing the words true and/or american:
“Lucky Man,
it’s true that she’s virtuous
and has a beautiful body.
And it’s true that I am lacking.
But tell me:
will all these people
who aren’t like her
have to die?”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)
“I have been spending my first night in an American “summer hotel,” and I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining callow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!... What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.”
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)