"It is a mistake to expect good work……" — Cyril Connolly
"It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing."
More Expatriates Quotes
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just… — Paul Auster
- Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons. — Tony Campolo
- You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink… — Ernest Hemingway
- I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long… — James Hillman
- The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of… — Adam Gopnik
- Such is the nature of an expatriate life. Stripped of romance, perhaps that's what being an expat is all about:… — Sarah Turnbull
- [The director's idea for the film was:] A young American or English girl goes to Tuscany to visit English expatriates.… — Susan Minot
- To read 'Happy Talk' is to crash a party as vivid and surreal as Felini's 8. It's the business of… — Monica Drake
- The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the… — Paul Theroux
- I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate… — Bharati Mukherjee
- I travel backwards and forwards quite a lot. I live very near to the train station. I'm kind of playing… — Jarvis Cocker
- We didn't think the library was funny looking in it's faux- Greek splendor, nor did we find the cuisine limited… — Audrey Niffenegger