Travellers Quotes

Usually speaking the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

I have travelled a good deal in Concord.

Old men and far travellers may lie with authority.

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

When I was at home I was in a better place but travellers must be content.

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know one must be an actor as well as a spectator.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you for Paris is a movable feast.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

I like terra firma - the more firma the less terra.

If one had but a single glance to give the world one should gaze on Istanbul.

The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.