Foreign Proper Names

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

    “The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.”
    —John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)

    “To write anything tolerable, the mind must be in a natural, proper disposition; provocatives, in that case, as well as in another, will only produce miserable, abortive performances.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “The names of those who in their lives fought for life,
    Who wore at their hearts the fire’s centre.
    Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun,
    And left the vivid air signed with their honour.”
    —Stephen Spender (1909–1995)