foreigner quotes

La famille des Bourbons est un poignard que l'e  tranger en1814 a laisse   dans le c½ur de la France: changez le manche comme il vous plaira, dorez la lame si vous voulez, le poignard reste poignard. The Bourbon family is a dagger whichthe foreigner left in the heart of France in1814: changethe haft if you please, gild the blade if you will, the dagger remains a dagger.

- Edgar Quinet
  ¼uvres, vol.3, p.267.

We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves. If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.

- Anthony Trollope
  Stavely. Orley Farm, ch.18.