Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.

~ Elizabeth Knox

Elizabeth Knox Ancestors Books Foreigners Meet Neighbors People

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Foreigners Patriotism War

The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue.

~ Munia Khan

Munia Khan Express Foreign Foreign Language Foreigners Inexpressible Joy Know Knowing Language Language Barrier Language Learning Language Understanding Languages Learn Language Learning Mother Language Mother Tongue Understanding

We of alien looks or words must stick together.

~ C.j. Sansom

C.j. Sansom Community Exclusion Foreigners Immigrants Outsiders Society Xenophobia

One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher.

~ Iain M. Banks

Iain M. Banks Belief Cognitive Dissonance Confirmation Bias Foreigners Philosophy

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson Foreigners Openmindedness Travel

Perhaps, like most of us in a foreign country, he was incapable of placing people, selecting a frame for their picture, as he would at home; therefore all Americans had to be judged in a pretty equal light, and on this basis his companions appeared to be tolerable examples of local color and national character.

~ Truman Capote

Truman Capote Foreigners Travel

If you think it's bad now, my friend, wait till we reach a town!' He shook his head and brushed at his tattered, dirty shirtsleeve. 'Do try to remember we're visitors-and not welcome ones-if you should feel moved to reason with anyone.

~ David Weber

David Weber Caution Foreign Foreigner Foreigners Humor Humours Reason Travel Traveling Unfriendly Visitor

These outlanders are peculiar, aren’t they?Longbow smiled faintly. They seem to think that we’re the peculiar ones. Their lives are very complicated, but we try our best to keep everything simple. I’m not sure exactly why, but that seems to offend them for some reason.

~ David Eddings

David Eddings Cultural Differences Culture Eddings Foreigners Outlanders Peculiar Strange

The American Club was for those who preferred to have dinner at six and brunch on a Sunday and avoid the stress of dealing with Greeks and their language.

~ John Mole

John Mole Americans Culture Foreigners Greeks

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

Cormac Mccarthy California Foreigners Home Settling Strangers

Dating in England is different. First of all because English people don’t like at all other people knowing them, and second, because English people are romantically impaired.

~ Angela Kiss

Angela Kiss Dating England Foreigners

If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves.

~ Michael Shaara

Michael Shaara Civil War Foreigners Patriotism Slavery

Of course no one accused the old woman of being a witch. But she was foreign. Her words percolated up the tunnel of her throat , espresso-thick and strong. Bad weather had eroded her face. Some believed that the sun had crisped her skin into coriaceous pleats. Others blamed the chaw of a wintry climate. No one knew where she came from, though lots of people privately thought that perhaps she ought to go back.

~ Carys Bray

Carys Bray Foreign Foreigners Witch Witches

I have always thought foreigners with their unusual skin colours, mad languages and ignorant customs absolutely hilarious, and I think it's a shame that in recent years its become unfashionable to poke fun at them. I certainly don't think they themselves ever minded it.

~ Arthur Mathews

Arthur Mathews Foreigners Prejudice

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

~ Mason Cooley

Mason Cooley Think Never Foreigners