Arthur Mathews Quote

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

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 shoul...

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

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

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

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

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.

But the silent stranger could hardly have understood what was passing: she was a German who had not long been in Russia and knew not a word of Russian, and she seemed to be as stupid as she was handso...

The fact that the Hegnish have absolutely no interest in any people except themselves can also cause offense, or even rage. Foreigners exist. That is all the Hegnish know about them, and all they care...