“A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.”
Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Meleager, Frag. 525
“T was for the good of my country that I should be abroad.”
The Beaux’ Stratagem (1707), Act iii. Sc. 2. Compare: "Leaving his country for his country’s sake", Fitz-Geffrey, The Life and Death of Sir Francis Drake (1596), stanza 213.; "True patriots all; for, be it understood, / We left our country for our country’s good", George Barrington, Prologue written for the opening of the Play-house at New South Wales, Jan. 16, 1796. New South Wales, p. 152.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "T was for the good of my country that I should be abroad." by George Farquhar?
George Farquhar11
Irish dramatist 1677–1707Related quotes
“A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.”
Laurence Sterne book The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Book VII (1765), Ch. 2.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)
Alessandra Martines (1963) Italian dancer and actor
On being awarded with L'Ordre national du Mérite (National Order of Merit) from Nicolas Sarkozy, as quoted in Alessandra Martines: Parigi premia il mio talento ma l'Italia spesso mi ignora http://www.corriere.it/spettacoli/08_agosto_26/matines_cavaliere_francia_costantini_df494be8-7337-11dd-95d1-00144f02aabc.shtml, Corriere della Sera, (8-26-2008). <br class="br">Variant: I am overjoyed, but I repeat: it is not my country which awards me. In Italy, those who make a name for themselves in other countries are ignored.
“T was good advice, and meant, my son, Be good.”
George Crabbe (1754–1832) English poet, surgeon, and clergyman
Tale xxi, "The Learned Boy".
Tales in Verse (1812)
Krist Novoselic (1965) Croatian-American rock musician
51:46–51:54 <br class="br"> "Nirvana's Krist Novoselic on Punk, Politics, & Why He Dumped the Dems" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4TPRH2uK9w
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
1860s, Speech to Germans at Cincinnati, Ohio (1861), Gazette version
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (1946) King of Sweden
royalcorrespondent.com http://royalcorrespondent.com/2013/02/15/an-interview-with-his-majesty-king-carl-xvi-gustaf-of-sweden/
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
In the House of Commons (18 April 1947), cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations (1996), Jay, Oxford University Press, p. 93.
Post-war years (1945–1955)
“T. G. T. B. T: too good to be true.”
Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress
Source: Too Good to Be True