Foreign Quotes

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. (Seneca)
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. View quote
Christopher Morley
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign. View quote
Mae West
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. View quote
George Orwell
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government. View quote
James K. Polk
The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter. View quote
Willa Cather
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports. View quote
Eric Hobsbawm
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer. (Peter Ustinov)
All of life is a foreign country. View quote
Jack Kerouac
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. View quote
Jimmy Carter
The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies." View quote
Henrik Ibsen
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. View quote
John Steinbeck
Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language. View quote
Virginia Woolf
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. View quote
L. P. Hartley
Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it in Africa, we see it in Asia. (Loretta Napoleoni)
Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers. View quote
W. Averell Harriman
On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they the Colonies raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. View quote
Daniel Webster
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. View quote
Clifton Fadiman
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. View quote
James Madison