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> [Nobody has ever been able to define Jazz satisfactorily. This is probably because anyone who was capable of doing so never really wanted to, knowing how much you would have to leave out of the definition.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-kingsley/nobody-has-ever-been-able-to-define-jazz-satisfactorily-this-is/)

[Mary Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-kingsley/)

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## More by Mary Kingsley

> [One immense old lady has a family of lively young crocodiles running over her, evidently playing like a lot of kittens. The heavy musky…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-kingsley/one-immense-old-lady-has-a-family-of-lively-young-crocodiles-running/)

[Mary Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-kingsley/)

> [There is one distinctive charm about fishing - its fascinations will stand any climate. You may sit crouching on ice over a hole inside…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-kingsley/there-is-one-distinctive-charm-about-fishing-its-fascinations-will/)

[Mary Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-kingsley/)

> [I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-kingsley/i-most-carefully-confined-myself-to-facts-and-arranged-those-facts-on/)

[Mary Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-kingsley/)

> [Ambas and Bobia Islands are perfect gems of beauty. Mondoleh I cannot say I admire. It always looks to me exactly like one of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-kingsley/ambas-and-bobia-islands-are-perfect-gems-of-beauty-mondoleh-i-cannot/)

[Mary Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-kingsley/)

> [West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-kingsley/west-africa-today-is-just-a-quarry-of-paving-stones-for-hell-and/)

[Mary Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-kingsley/)

> [If you see a thing that looks like a cross between a flying lobster and the figure of Abraxas on a Gnostic gem, do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-kingsley/if-you-see-a-thing-that-looks-like-a-cross-between-a-flying-lobster/)

[Mary Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-kingsley/)

> [Nobody has ever been able to define Jazz satisfactorily. This is probably because anyone who was capable of doing so never really wanted to,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-kingsley/nobody-has-ever-been-able-to-define-jazz-satisfactorily-this-is/)

[Mary Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-kingsley/)

> [ \[Responding to repeated questions about traveling in Africa without a husband:\] I am looking for him. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-kingsley/responding-to-repeated-questions-about-traveling-in-africa-without-a/)

[Mary Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-kingsley/)

> [It is my melancholy fate to like so many people I profoundly disagree with and often heartily dislike people who agree with me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-kingsley/it-is-my-melancholy-fate-to-like-so-many-people-i-profoundly-disagree/)

[Mary Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-kingsley/)

> [the African leopard is an audacious animal, although it is ungrateful of me to say a word against him, after the way he has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-kingsley/the-african-leopard-is-an-audacious-animal-although-it-is-ungrateful/)

[Mary Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-kingsley/)

> [It is a generally received opinion that there are too many books in the world already. I cannot, however, subscribe to any Institution that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-kingsley/it-is-a-generally-received-opinion-that-there-are-too-many-books-in/)

[Mary Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-kingsley/)

> [the grim, grand African forests are like a great library, in which, so far, I can do little more than look at the pictures,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-kingsley/the-grim-grand-african-forests-are-like-a-great-library-in-which-so/)

[Mary Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-kingsley/)

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