Foreign Proper Names

Famous quotes containing the words foreign, proper and/or names:

“Maybe it’s understandable what a history of failures America’s foreign policy has been. We are, after all, a country full of people who came to America to get away from foreigners. Any prolonged examination of the U.S. government reveals foreign policy to be America’s miniature schnauzer—a noisy but small and useless part of the national household.”
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)

“The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

“I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)