Best 15 quotes of John Gunther on MyQuotes

Arkansas is a curious and interesting community ... it is probably the most untouched and unawakened of all American states.

[Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it in other superlatives, but it is a "world" city, more European in some respects than American.

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.

France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn’t care who knows it.

He was trying to save both his faces.

I have so much to do! And there's so little time!

Moscow is the city where if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at her feet first.

New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the inferno with no-out-of bounds, the supreme expression of both the miseries and the splendors of contemporary civilization, the Macedonia of the United States. It meets the most severe test that may be applied to definition of a metropolis - it stays up all night. But also it becomes a small town when it rains.

Old and new kiss everywhere in Africa

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.

The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.

Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble.

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.