Canadians Quotes

You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

~ Sarah Vowell

It 's the time of year when Canadians mate.

~ Craig Ferguson

She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.

~ Mavis Gallant

Nonsense. Everyone knows Canadians are a peaceful people.” He was laughing now.“Tell that to the White House circa 1812,” I told him.“Oh? Why?”“Because that’s the year the peace-loving Canadians burned it to the ground.”Dominick grabbed an empty bottle and jumped onto his chair. The room got silent in an instant as everyone paused to look at him. “Cheers to 1812.” He lifted his empty bottle.The whole room whooped and raised their full glasses, howling in unison.I could barely hear over the sound of my own laughter.

~ Sierra Dean

The zombies were like Canadians, in that they looked enough like real people at first, to fool you.

~ Kelly Link

It may interest for you to know that most Canadians in 2036 are some of the most efficient, ruthless and dangerous people I know. God help Quebec.

~ John Titor Foundation

Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.

~ Tommy Douglas

Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4 000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan Italy than to Vancouver.

~ Simon Hoggart

Canada is so square even the female impersonators are women.

~ Anonymous

No one is the worse for knowing two languages.

~ Oliver Mowat

One of the cool chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.

~ John Updike

That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.

~ Winston Churchill

To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.

~ David Cronenberg

You've never seen this country It's not the way you thought it was Look again.

~ Al Purdy

The whole history of the Canadian north can be divided into two periods - before and after the aeroplane.

~ Hugh Keenleyside

The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.

~ Stephen Leacock

The father of confederation is deadlock.

~ Goldwin Smith

The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin prairie of western Canada.

~ T. E. Hulme

Quebec is the original heart the hardest and deepest kernel the core of first time. All round nine other provinces form the flesh of this still-bitter fruit called Canada.

~ Anne Hubert

Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.

~ Goldwin Smith

Americans like to make money: Canadians like to audit it. I know no country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.

~ Northrop Frye

I suppose the half-breeds in Manitoba in 1870 did not fight for two hundred forty acres of land but it is to be understood there were two societies who treated together. One was small but in its smallness it had its rights. The other was great but in its greatness it had no greater rights than the rights of the small because the right is the same for everyone.

~ Louis Riel

Canada's national bird is the grouse.

~ Stuart Keate

Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.

~ Northrop Frye

There has never been a war of Canadian origin nor for a Canadian cause.

~ William Arthur Deacon

Canada is a collection often provinces with strong governments loosely connected by fear.

~ Dave Broadfoot

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.

~ Paul Anka

My generation of Canadians grew up believing that if we were very good or very smart or both we would some day graduate from Canada.

~ Robert Fulford

We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.

~ Northrop Frye

Never hear anything bad about Canada that's one thing - in fact I guess it's the only thing.

~ Walter Stewart

Canada is a society rather than a nation.

~ Kildare Dobbs

Living next to the United States is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

~ Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Canada reminds me of vichyssoise - it's cold half-French and difficult to stir.

~ Stuart Keate

Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the world which is a pure colony colonial in psychology as well as in mercantile economics.

~ Northrop Frye

Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty as they do air without thought or appreciation.

~ Dean Acheson

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

~ J. Bartlet Brebner

'Rich by nature poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.

~ Goldwin Smith

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.

~ Paul St. Pierre

(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness.

~ Wyndham Lewis

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?

~ Margaret Mead