On Foreign Types
June 24, 2008
Uncle Matthew’s four years in France and Italy between 1914 and 1918 had given him no great opinion of foreigners. “Frogs,” he would say, “are slightly better than Huns or Wops, but abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.”
~~Nancy Mitford (1904–1973). The Pursuit of Love, ch. 15 (1945).[Uncle Matthew was a fictional character based on Nancy Mitford's father, Lord Redesdale]
Update:
No true-born Englishman ever gave a fig about whether or not his country was liked. Who cares what foreigners think? As my old Dad was wont to express it from the depths of the paternal armchair: “Foreigners? Bloody fools, for all I can see.”
~~John Derbyshire. Obama’s Black Edge.
(HT to Omphale of Common Defence)
