Quote by Walter Scott

“and he is forbidden the knowledge of foreign languages. If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar…

— George Orwell

“His stories rarely began in foreign countries, for the minds of listeners cannot easily fly there on their own powers.”

— Hermann Hesse

“If he were allowed to contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he…

— George Orwell

“In this country, it is enough for a man to have distinction and brains for every common tongue to wag against him.”

— Oscar Wilde

“I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble…

— Edmund Burke

He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something…

— Samuel Johnson

“... if one hasn't been through, as our people mercifully did not go through, the horrors of an occupation by a foreign power, you…

— Anthony Eden

“He thought, This country does attract fanatics and torment them.”

— Karen Fisher

“I know you don't think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense. A child…

— Jasmine Ann Cooray

“I have even begun to speak in foreign tongues roaming like a nomad in my own town.”

— W.G. Sebald

“A person who hates his country does not have an agenda for his country.”

— T.J. Kirk

“When a man journeys into a far country, he must be prepared to forget many of the things he has learned, and to acquire…

— Jack London