the African leopard is an audacious animal, although it is ungrateful of me to say a word against him, after the way he has let me off personally ... taken as a whole, he is the most lovely animal I… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
One immense old lady has a family of lively young crocodiles running over her, evidently playing like a lot of kittens. The heavy musky… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
There is one distinctive charm about fishing - its fascinations will stand any climate. You may sit crouching on ice over a hole inside… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible. — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
Ambas and Bobia Islands are perfect gems of beauty. Mondoleh I cannot say I admire. It always looks to me exactly like one of… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
If you see a thing that looks like a cross between a flying lobster and the figure of Abraxas on a Gnostic gem, do… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever been able to define Jazz satisfactorily. This is probably because anyone who was capable of doing so never really wanted to,… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
[Responding to repeated questions about traveling in Africa without a husband:] I am looking for him. — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
It is my melancholy fate to like so many people I profoundly disagree with and often heartily dislike people who agree with me. — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
the African leopard is an audacious animal, although it is ungrateful of me to say a word against him, after the way he has… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
It is a generally received opinion that there are too many books in the world already. I cannot, however, subscribe to any Institution that… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
the grim, grand African forests are like a great library, in which, so far, I can do little more than look at the pictures,… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
![“[Responding to repeated questions about traveling in Africa without a husband:] I am looking for him.” quote by Mary Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9c6/mary-kingsley-38312_husband_responding-to-repeated-questions-about-t_2040129.jpg)
