Abroad Quotes

501 Abroad quotes by 395 unique authors

Foul whisperings are abroad — William Shakespeare
If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad. — Jane Austen
Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and… — Oscar Wilde
When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you,… — Mark Twain
As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad,… — Marcus Aurelius
The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When one travels abroad,… — Marisha Pessl
It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home. — Ambeth R. Ocampo
America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. — John Quincy Adams
My Friend: Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in despair. I have… — Rabindranath Tagore
There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those who stay at… — Lord Dunsany
But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad… — Jane Austen
Living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it completed a person,… — David Sedaris
It had been a good day, all things considered. I had managed rather well on my own. I opened Grandfather's Bible. This is what it… — Laurie Halse Anderson
It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide;… — Charles Dickens
Behind every American soldier, dozens of their countrymen tonight sleep soundly — and hundreds more in their shadow abroad will wake up alive and safe. — Victor Davis Hanson
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist. — Evelyn Waugh
It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution. — Samuel Beckett
It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are… — Hannah Arendt
Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good. — Saadi
Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes. — Yasmina Khadra
Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word… — Robert Frost
Nature....she will hang the night stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send word the wind over my footprints… — Oscar Wilde
I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be… — James Joyce
One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of… — Nicholas D. Kristof

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