abroad quotes

I haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now.

- Robert Charles Benchley
  After1903 What?

He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew12:30.

From scenes like these, old S's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, 'An honest man's the noble work of G'. See Pope 660:25.

- Robert Burns
COTIAOD1785  'The Cotter's Saturday Night', stanza19. The last line is in fact a misquotation of Pope;'noble' was corrected to'noblest' in the1794 edition of Burns's poems.

I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned.

- Quentin Crisp
  The Naked Civil Servant, ch.4.

Abroad is bloody.

-GeorgeVI
Quoted in W H  Auden  A Certain World (1970),'Royalty'.

   I struck the board, and cried,'No more. I will abroad.' What? shall I ever sigh and pine? My lines and life are free; free as the road, Loose as the wind, as large as store.

- George Herbert
'The Collar', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously,1633).

At home, you always have to be a politician.When you are abroad, you almost feel yourself to be a statesman.

-Stockton
  Speech during the first visit of a British Prime Minister to Australia,17 Feb.

   Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.

- Nancy Freeman Mitford
  Uncle Matthew. The Pursuit of Love, ch.15.

Their whole business abroad (as far as I can perceive)

- Lady Mary Wortley ne  e Pierrepoint Montagu
English   novelist   and   essayist   of   Irish   parentage.   He   wrote various novels, a collection of essays  and many articles for  the Manchester Guardian (1890^1925).

The people die so, that now it seems theyare fain to carry the dead to be buried by daylight, the nights not sufficing to do it in. And my Lord Mayor commands people to be within at 9 at night, all (as they say) that the sick may have liberty to go abroad for ayre.

- Samuel Pepys
  Diary entry,12 Aug.

Weather abroad And weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.

- Adrienne Cecile Rich
A Change ofWorld,'StormWarnings'.

They have no education, no taste for reading, no housewifery, nor, indeed, any earthly occupation but that ofdressingtheirhair, andadorningtheirbodies.Theyhate walking, and would never go abroad, if they were not stimulated by the vanityof being seen† Nothing can be more parsimonious than the economy of these people. They live upon soup and bouille, fish and salad.

-Tobias George Smollett
  Of the nobility of Boulogne.Travels through France and Italy.

There is continual spring, and harvest there Continual, both meeting at one time: For both the boughs do laughing blossoms bear, And with fresh colours deck the wanton prime, And eke attonce the heavy trees they climb, Which seem to labour under their fruits load: The whiles the joyous birds make their pastime Amongst the shady leaves, their sweet above, And their true loves without suspicion tell abroad.

- Edmund Spenser
  Of the Garden of Adonis. The Faerie Queen, bk.3, canto 6, stanza 42.

Now hang it! quoth I, as I look'd towards the French coasta man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.

- Laurence Sterne
^67  Tristram.Tristram Shandy, bk.7, ch.2.

And I rose In rainy autumn And walked abroad in the shower of all my days.

- Dylan Marlais Thomas
  'Poem in October'.

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

- Sir Henry Wotton
Quoted in IzaakWalton's Life (1651).