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“They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.”

Travel Humorous Spells Foreigners

Author:Mark Twain

“Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists?”

Years Has Beens Home Able Past Realizing Travel Sixty Foreigners Tourists

Book:2000 new laughs for speakers: the ad-libber's handbook

Source: 2000 new laughs for speakers: the ad-libber's handbook

“Conversation is a traffick; and if you enter into it, without some stock of knowledge, to ballance the account perpetually betwixtyou,--the trade drops at once: and this is the reasonwhy travellers have so little [good] conversation with natives,--owing to their [the natives'] suspicionthat there is nothing to be extracted from the conversationworth the trouble of their bad language.”

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Author:Laurence Sterne

“Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home.”

Home Travel Advantage Prejudice Appreciation Remove Customs Foreigners

Book:A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

Source: A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

“As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners.”

Travel London Foreigners

Author:David Sedaris

“The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.”

Natural Travel Ideals Exile Foreigners

Book:The Uses of Literature

Source: The Uses of Literature

“The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they go or travel they will be rained down with bullets from everyone. Attacks by members of the resistance will only go up.”

Country Facts Simple Travel Members Resistance Rejected Bullets Funny Travel Foreigners

Author:Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

“Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.”

Thinking Travel Memorable Traveler Foreigners Great Travel Travel Light Foreign Travel

Author:Mason Cooley

“All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.”

Fighting Literature Sports Class Dog Policy Travel Notion Proportion Foreign Policy Familiarity Foreigners Short Dog

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“For a foreigner, L.A. is such a big, wonderful and weird place that, until you find your niche, you feel a little bit discombobulated.”

Feels Littles Bigs Bits Wonderful Travel Little Bit Foreigners Niche Weird Places

Author:David Lyons