Foreigners Quotes

217 Foreigners quotes by 182 unique authors

What was a foreigner, anyway? Is the place you're born the only place you really belong? At what point do you stop being from "away"… — Blue Balliett
Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The… — Tom Stoppard
You think you're the foreigner here, and I'm the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this… — Barbara Kingsolver
...it was never a good idea to date a foreigner. You can never tell when they're lying.' 'hello. Dave was BRITISH. — Meg Cabot
[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners. — Terry Pratchett
Now, this is where I draw the line! It's bad enough everybody in town's going to be thinkin' I'm sleeping with a depressed, lice-ridden, hemorrhoidal… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
We of alien looks or words must stick together. — C.J. Sansom
...there was another, gorier parturition, when two nations incarnated out of one. A foreigner drew a magic line on a map and called it the… — Rohinton Mistry
Why did you tell her I'm your boyfriend? Why doesn't she know about your real one? - Timmy He's English! And Mom...Mom hates foreigners! -… — Jeaniene Frost
My father was English. He date-raped my mother so she's hated English men ever since. You know my boyfriend's English, and I'm, uh, I'm half-English,… — Jeaniene Frost
If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been… — George Orwell
Sadly, I hate foreigners. And Americans. And animals. And flora, and some fauna. Also the magma that is the very core of this our mother… — Joss Whedon
Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared.… — Jean Webster
You took a walk on a Sunday afternoon and came to a nice neighborhood, very refined. You saw a small one of these trees through… — Betty Smith
She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners. — Anne Tyler
What are you looking at, foreigner?â€ the guard demanded roughly. The smile was a little unsettling. A prisoner shouldnâ€™t smile at his captors like that.… — John Flanagan
Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors. — Voltaire
Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily availability of my writing, lines capable of grasping me by the… — Roberto Bolano
there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation… — Kurt Vonnegut
If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every… — Lisa Kleypas

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