I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I first noticed how the sound of water is like the talk of human voices, and would sometimes wake in the night… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it,… — 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
One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the… — 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
The monstrosity of bureaucracy, I thought: always the pint-pot judging the gallon, the scribe's, the door-keeper's world. Always the stupidity of people… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
... I want to be one of those people who are always to be found at home, nice restful people whom everybody… — 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
