Dublin ... is not only the capital of a nation, but the capital of an idea. The idea of Irishness is not universally beloved. Some people mock it, some hate it, some fear it. On the whole, though, I think… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
“Dublin was an English city, one of the loveliest. The most Irish thing about it was the shifting drab flow of the poor people” — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
Kashmir has always been more than a mere place. It has the quality of an experience, or a state of mind, or perhaps an… — Jan Morris Copy Share
To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is… — Jan Morris Copy Share
“There are people everywhere who form a Fourth World, or a diaspora of their own. They are the lordly ones! They come in all… — Jan Morris Copy Share
I’ve become obsessed with the idea of reconciliation, particularly reconciliation with nature but with people too, of course. I think that travel has been… — Jan Morris Copy Share
“Certainly Delhi is unimaginably antique, and age is a metaphysic, I suppose. Illustrations of mortality are inescapable there, and do give the place a… — Jan Morris Copy Share
“I accept the idea of helping men, and of being cherished by them. I’ve always had that feeling. If I could have my life… — Jan Morris Copy Share
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence. — Jan Morris Copy Share
“Few conversations, at any time of life, are more stimulating, more spontaneous and more genuinely original than those long ridiculous talks we all have,… — Jan Morris Copy Share
“In a Kenya game park once I saw a family of wart-hogs waddling ungainly and in a tremendous hurry across the grass. Contemptuous though… — Jan Morris Copy Share
Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles Dickens had… — Jan Morris Copy Share
“This was my introduction to mountaineering, and clumsy indeed were my movements as we moved off.” — Jan Morris Copy Share
if there is one place in the United States where private styles make up for public images, it is San Francisco, where all lapsed… — Jan Morris Copy Share
Wherever you go in life, you will feel somewhere over your shoulder a pink, castellated shimmering presence, the domes and riggings and crooked pinacles… — Jan Morris Copy Share
