Famous quotes containing the words foreign, relations and/or committee:
“When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (17491832)
“If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasurethe relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?”
—Virginia Woolf (18821941)
“A committee is an animal with four back legs.”
—John le Carré (b. 1931)