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Insults and Insulting
Quotes about Canada
You
know that these two nations are at war for a few acres of snow, and they are
spending... more than all of Canada is worth
Voltaire
It
makes little difference, Canada is useful only to provide me with furs
Madame de
Pompadour
I
fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much, what
I got by going to Canada was a cold.
Henry Thoreau
I
don't even know what street Canada is on
Al Capone
Canada
has a climate nine months winter and three months late in the fall
American
saying
A
sub-artic lumber village converted by Royal Mandate into a political cock fighting
pit
Goldwin Smith
on Ottawa
I
find that Newfoundland is said to be celebrated for it's codfish, its dogs,
its hogs and its fogs
Sir
William Whiteway
The
purity of the air of Newfoundland is without doubt due to the fact that the
people never open their windows
JG Millais
Quebec
does not have opinions, only sentiments
HL Mencken
Montreal
is the only place where a good French accent isn't a social assett
Brendan Behan
Toronto
as a city carries out the idea of Canada as a country. It is a calculated crime
both against the aspirations of the soul and the affection of the heart
Aleister Crowley
The cold narrow
minds, the confined ideas, the by-gone prejudices of the society are hardly conceivable;
books there are none, nor music, and as to pictures! the Lord deliver us from
such! The people do not know what a picture is.
Anna Jameson, Canadian writer
How utterly
destitute of all light and charm are the intellectual conditions of our people
and the institutions of our public life! How barbarous!
Archibald Lampman, Canadian writer
Canada is useful
only to provide me with furs.
Madame de Pompadour, French socialite, after the fall of Quebec,
1759
This gloomy
region, where the year is divided into one day and one night, lies entirely outside
the stream of history.
W. W. Reade, British explorer and novelist, 1872
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