Foreigners Quote by Quentin Crisp Download Open image “I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned” — Quentin Crisp ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Foreigners Speak Speak english Thinking
Don't forget I'm not English. English people maybe don't behave like we Europeans do. — Princess Michael of Kent Copy Share Image
“Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
I haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I think that as far as language goes I'm an American, I'm afraid, my accent is American, my way of talk is an American… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I had a tendency to over enunciate, so I think at times some of my English is part that and part inflection. And you… — Dorit Kemsley Copy Share Image
I very seldom, during my whole stay in the country, heard a sentence elegantly turned, and correctly pronounced from the lips of an American. — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
In certain places, not always, there are moments where I tried to convey in English a sense of foreignness. I wanted the reader to… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English. — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
“Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who, before anything has reared its ugly… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Most men when they make up their faces, the makeup stands forward, and their faces are behind. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists? — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
Nearly all the Gauls are of a lofty stature, white, and of ruddy complexion; terrible from the sternness of their eyes, very quarrelsome, and… — Ammianus Marcellinus Copy Share Image
I'm getting less good at faking it. People in my family are noticing and asking what's wrong. My friends give me invitations to talk,… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God, this is the secret of greatness.If you have faith in all the three hundred and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I first went to Barcelona in 1975 after university, and I stayed for three years. I learnt Catalan because that's what everyone speaks in… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
A foreigner is an individual who is considered either comic or sinister. When the victim of a disaster - preferably natural but sometimes political… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image