Foreign Proper Names

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

“I am tired of loving a foreign muse.”
—Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943)

“I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“Watt’s need of semantic succour was at times so great that he would set to trying names on things, and on himself, almost as a woman hats.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)