Foreign Proper Names

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

    “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
    —L.P. (Leslie Poles)

    “He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “Row after row with strict impunity
    The headstones yield their names to the element,
    The wind whirrs without recollection....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)