Once divested of missionary virus, the cult of our gods gives no offence. It would be a peaceful age if this were… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat… There is no essential difference between the various human… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Revolution is man's normal activity, and if he is wise he will grade it slowly so that it may be almost imperceptible… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
... except in the eyes of a few fanatics (untrustworthy as all lovers) an unmitigated expanse of water is dull even when… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Few - very few - of our attainments are so profound that they are valid for always; even if they are so,… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Like a human being, the mountain is a composite creature, only to be known after many a view from many a different… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
