Mark Twain - Nancy Mitford - George Bernard Shaw - Ronald Reagan - Noam Chomsky - James Madison - Samuel Butler - Simon Hoggart - Quentin Crisp - George W Bush - Ian Wright - Laurence Sterne - Tonight TV -
41,266. We wanted something thoroughly and uncompromisingly foreign - foreign from top to bottom - foreign from center to circumference - foreign inside and outside and all around - nothing anywhere about it to dilute its foreignness - nothing to remind us of any other people or any other land under the sun. And lo! in Tangier we have found it. (Abroad & Foreign & Morocco) Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad ch8
41,267. Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends. Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love 1945
41,268. I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. George Bernard Shaw
41,269. We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent. (Abroad & Foreign Relations US) Ronald Reagan
41,270. Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured. (Abroad & Torture) Noam Chomsky
41,271. The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad. (Abroad & Liberty) James Madison
41,272. Death is only a larger kind of going abroad. (Death & Abroad) Samuel Butler
41,273. Remember how Margaret Thatcher came to believe that abroad was more important than at home? Didn't do her much good. (Abroad & Thatcher) Simon Hoggart
73,439. I don’t hold with abroad, and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned. (Foreigner & Abroad) Quentin Crisp
71,931. More and more of our exports are coming from abroad. (Export & Bush) George W Bush
40,138. I don’t want Rooney to leave these shores but if he does, I think he’ll go abroad. (Football & Abroad) Ian Wright
98,730. A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad. (Abroad & Country) Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
105,715. Tonight: the Brits living in the European Union - those fearing the future, others who hope it’ll be all right, and how far would you go to stay in the Sun? Tonight: Brits Abroad: Is the Dream Over? ITV 2017
105,716. Over a million Britons live and work in the EU. ibid.