Foreign Proper Names

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

    “Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    “While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

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