Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good. — 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
Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
There are, I sometimes think, only two sorts of people in this world - the settled and the nomad - and there… — 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
Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
All greatness in style begins, I imagine, with such respect, deep and passionate enough to produce a humility which will not assert… — 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
The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had.… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it. — Freya Stark Copy Share
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
There are, I sometimes think, only two sorts of people in this world - the settled and the nomad - and there is a… — Freya Stark Copy Share
“I have no reason to go, except that I have never been, and knowledge is better than ignorance. What better reason could there be… — Freya Stark Copy Share
