243 quotes found
“Canada is a society rather than a nation.”
“Canada reminds me of vichyssoise - it's cold half-French and difficult to stir.”
“Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty as they do air without thought or appreciation.”
“Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.”
“'Rich by nature poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.”
“Canadian politics in British Columbia is an adventure on the Prairies a cause in Ontario a business in Quebec a religion in the Maritimes a disease.”
“When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street it couldn't be anywhere but Canada but how can I prove it?”
“Newfoundland is a great English ship moored near the Banks during the fishing season for the convenience of the English fishermen.”
“The land too poor for any other crop is best for raising men.”
“The Greeks who knew everything understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.”
“Canada is a live country - live but not like the States kicking.”
“If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.”
“We sing about the North but live as far south as possible.”
“Canada has no cultural unity no linguistic unity no religious unity no economic unity no geographic unity. All it has is unity.”
“So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries one here and one in Europe national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels.”
“We French-Canadians belong to one country Canada: Canada is for us the whole world: but the English-Canadians have two countries one here and one across the sea.”
“If a player continues transgressing the rules his side shall lose him.”
“Scenery here in Canada is by the mile whereas in England it is by the foot. In England there is a great wealth of 'pretty bits'. In Canada there is a great lack of them. But there are grandeur vast...”
“I know that through the grace of God I am the founder of Manitoba.”
“Actually when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene nobody outdoes Canadians myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.”
