Undoubtedly the Afghans must be, by our standards, the best-looking people in the world. They have everything; height, proportions, carriage, features and… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
This is a city of absolute enchantment in the literal sense of the word. It loosens all the bonds binding the traveller… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
The more I see of life in these 'undeveloped countries' and of the methods adopted to 'improve' them, the more depressed I… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
“Even a brief glimpse of what we were is valuable to help understand what we are” — Dervla Murphy Copy Share
one feels guilty on behalf of Western civilisation. What damage are we doing, blindly and swiftly, to those races who are being taught that… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share
The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise. — Dervla Murphy Copy Share
On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India. — Dervla Murphy Copy Share
Undoubtedly the Afghans must be, by our standards, the best-looking people in the world. They have everything; height, proportions, carriage, features and complexion. — Dervla Murphy Copy Share
“I thank God for my sanguine temperament, which refuses to allow me to believe in disaster until it is finally manifest” — Dervla Murphy Copy Share
[On Addis Ababa:] Among the city's handicaps are an immaturity for which no one can be blamed, as it was founded only eighty years… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share
Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner. — Dervla Murphy Copy Share
one of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition. — Dervla Murphy Copy Share
hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater. — Dervla Murphy Copy Share
On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to India...However, I… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share
Is this something else our age does - on the one hand make communication easier than ever before, while on the other hand widening… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share
apartheid still hangs in the air like a poisonous cloud left over from chemical warfare. — Dervla Murphy Copy Share
the sudden violent dispossession accompanying a refugee flight is much more than the loss of a permanent home and a traditional occupation, or than… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share
