Good American Quotes

Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.
- Thomas Gold Appleton

When good Americans die they go to Paris.
- Oscar Wilde

A good American makes propaganda for whatever existence has forced him to become.
- Saul Bellow

I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.
- George Carlin

I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England.
- John Corigliano

Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.
- Ian Fleming

Once upon a time there was a war...and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That's me.
- Denis Johnson

We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically.
- Hamilton Jordan

Like a good American, I wanted to sue somebody. But like a good librarian, I just sat at my desk and waited.
- Rebecca Makkai

I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.
- Peter Shaffer

Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
- Upton Sinclair

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.
- Diane Wakoski