78 Quotes by Isabella Bird

I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one’s life and sigh.

The ‘almighty dollar’ is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.

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...

Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases ‘biggest in the world,’ ‘finest in the world,’ are on all lips.

Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips. Unless President Hayes is a strong man, they will soon come to boast that their government is composed of the 'biggest scoundrels' in the world.

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, and, above all, of the quietness and purity of English domestic life.