travellers

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

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.

All travelling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.

Before he sets out the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander ramble as a tramp. The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere so his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.

Wherever I travel I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere.

The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.

Travel is ninety per cent anticipation and ten per cent recollection.

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

The crow when travelling abroad came back just as black.

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.

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.

There is a ghost That eats handkerchiefs It keeps you company On all your travels.

A bred-in-the-bone Boston lady when asked why she never travelled said 'Why should I? I'm already there.'

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

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

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.