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)

“Here is a dirty book worth reading ... a bawdy which will be very useful to put Wyndham and J.J. into their proper cubby holes; cause Miller is sore and without kinks.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“Shut out that stealing moon,
She wears too much the guise she wore
Before our lutes were strewn
With years-deep dust, and names we read
On a white stone were hewn.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)