swineheads

Updated: May 17, 2025

But he came home with his pictures still under his arm in a perfect fury and raged up and down his room, using very dreadful language. But after a little while when he grew calmer he explained to me that the Americans are merely swineheads and that art, especially art such as his, is wasted on them. Uncle says that he has no wish to speak harshly of the Americans, but they are pig-dogs.

Stephen Leacock - The Hohenzollerns in America