161 Quotes by Freya Stark

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.

Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die.

Few - very few - of our attainments are so profound that they are valid for always; even if they are so, they need adjustment, a straightening here, a loosening there, like an old garment to be fitted to the body ...

The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues ...

Your real progressives are never fair: they are never sufficiently neutral.

I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!

Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but in their implications, their sequences, and their silences, just as in architecture the empty spaces are as important as those that are filled.

words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them.

every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance.