320 Quotes About Travel-writing

Ce n'est jamais la vie qui décline, mais seulement l'idée qu'on parvient à s'en faire.

History presents a record of follies and errors fondly cherished, and reluctantly abandoned.

A challenge that tested Tom to his limit but in return gave him more than he could ever have imagined.

Before me and beside me sat a row of the comeliest young men, clad in black gowns and wearing on their shoulders long hoods trimmed in white fur. Who and what they were I know not, for I preferred not to learn, lest by chance they should not be so mediaeval as they looked.

One need not be a rabid Anglican to be extremely sensible to the charm of an English country church...

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

The urge to travel feels magnetic. Two of my favorite words are linked: departure time. And travel whets the emotions, turns upside down the memory bank, and the golden coins scatter.

There are no tips for life neither for travelling

All anyone really needs to know about barbed wire is that it can tear the arse out of your trousers, give a cow a good fright, entangle a Yorkshire terrier for life, and is nasty stuff made by greedy men.