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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jan-morris/dublin-is-not-only-the-capital-of-a-nation-but-the-capital-of-an-idea/)

[Jan Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jan-morris/)

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> [“Dublin was an English city, one of the loveliest. The most Irish thing about it was the shifting drab flow of the poor people”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jan-morris/dublin-was-an-english-city-one-of-the-loveliest-the-most-irish-thing/)

[Jan Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jan-morris/)

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## Other authors on Dublin

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## More by Jan Morris

> [Kashmir has always been more than a mere place. It has the quality of an experience, or a state of mind, or perhaps an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jan-morris/kashmir-has-always-been-more-than-a-mere-place-it-has-the-quality-of/)

[Jan Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jan-morris/)

> [To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jan-morris/to-me-gender-is-not-physical-at-all-but-is-altogether-insubstantial/)

[Jan Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jan-morris/)

> [“There are people everywhere who form a Fourth World, or a diaspora of their own. They are the lordly ones! They come in all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jan-morris/there-are-people-everywhere-who-form-a-fourth-world-or-a-diaspora-of/)

[Jan Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jan-morris/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jan-morris/i-ve-become-obsessed-with-the-idea-of-reconciliation-particularly/)

[Jan Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jan-morris/)

> [“Certainly Delhi is unimaginably antique, and age is a metaphysic, I suppose. Illustrations of mortality are inescapable there, and do give the place a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jan-morris/certainly-delhi-is-unimaginably-antique-and-age-is-a-metaphysic-i/)

[Jan Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jan-morris/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jan-morris/i-accept-the-idea-of-helping-men-and-of-being-cherished-by-them-i-ve/)

[Jan Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jan-morris/)

> [Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jan-morris/book-lovers-will-understand-me-and-they-will-know-too-that-part-of/)

[Jan Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jan-morris/)

> [Leningrad ... is a city with the gift of timelessness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jan-morris/leningrad-is-a-city-with-the-gift-of-timelessness/)

[Jan Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jan-morris/)

> [“Few conversations, at any time of life, are more stimulating, more spontaneous and more genuinely original than those long ridiculous talks we all have,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jan-morris/few-conversations-at-any-time-of-life-are-more-stimulating-more/)

[Jan Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jan-morris/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jan-morris/in-a-kenya-game-park-once-i-saw-a-family-of-wart-hogs-waddling/)

[Jan Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jan-morris/)

> [Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jan-morris/its-smallness-is-not-petty-on-the-contrary-it-is-profound/)

[Jan Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jan-morris/)

> [Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles Dickens had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jan-morris/movement-was-the-essence-of-manhattan-it-had-always-been-so-and-now/)

[Jan Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jan-morris/)

> [“This was my introduction to mountaineering, and clumsy indeed were my movements as we moved off.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jan-morris/this-was-my-introduction-to-mountaineering-and-clumsy-indeed-were-my/)

[Jan Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jan-morris/)

> [if there is one place in the United States where private styles make up for public images, it is San Francisco, where all lapsed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jan-morris/if-there-is-one-place-in-the-united-states-where-private-styles-make/)

[Jan Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jan-morris/)

> [Wherever you go in life, you will feel somewhere over your shoulder a pink, castellated shimmering presence, the domes and riggings and crooked pinacles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jan-morris/wherever-you-go-in-life-you-will-feel-somewhere-over-your-shoulder-a/)

[Jan Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jan-morris/)

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