Foreigners Quotes

I have always thought foreigners with their unusual skin colours, mad languages and ignorant customs absolutely hilarious, and I think it's a shame that in recent years its become unfashionable to poke fun at them. I certainly don't think they themselves ever minded it.

Of course no one accused the old woman of being a witch. But she was foreign. Her words percolated up the tunnel of her throat , espresso-thick and strong. Bad weather had eroded her face. Some believed that the sun had crisped her skin into coriaceous pleats. Others blamed the chaw of a wintry climate. No one knew where she came from, though lots of people privately thought that perhaps she ought to go back.

If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves.

Dating in England is different. First of all because English people don’t like at all other people knowing them, and second, because English people are romantically impaired.

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.

Cormac McCarthy

The American Club was for those who preferred to have dinner at six and brunch on a Sunday and avoid the stress of dealing with Greeks and their language.

John Mole

These outlanders are peculiar, aren’t they?"Longbow smiled faintly. "They seem to think that we’re the peculiar ones. Their lives are very complicated, but we try our best to keep everything simple. I’m not sure exactly why, but that seems to offend them for some reason.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

Robert Louis Stevenson

One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher.

We of alien looks or words must stick together.

The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue.

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

Voltaire

Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.