Mark Twain - Nancy Mitford - George Bernard Shaw - Ronald Reagan - Noam Chomsky - James Madison - Samuel Butler - Simon Hoggart - Quentin Crisp - Ian Wright - Laurence Sterne - Tonight TV -
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. Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad ch8
Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends. Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love, 1945
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. George Bernard Shaw
We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent. Ronald Reagan
Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured. Noam Chomsky
The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad. James Madison
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad. Samuel Butler
Remember how Margaret Thatcher came to believe that abroad was more important than at home? Didn’t do her much good. Simon Hoggart
I don’t hold with abroad, and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned. Quentin Crisp
I don’t want Rooney to leave these shores but if he does, I think he’ll go abroad. Ian Wright
A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad. Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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
Over a million Britons live and work in the EU. ibid.