All Freya Stark Quotes
- The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you. Beckoning
- Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to… Adding
- The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech. Call
- The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live. All
- Risk is the salt and sugar of life. Inspirational
- This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly… Become Part
- The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition. Advertising
- I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful… America
- Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose… Bones
- A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above… Art
- Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the… Age
- One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going… Affection
- If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road. Changing
- Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart. All
- There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Believe
- Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other. Absence
- Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature. Curiosity
- Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle. Actually Feel
- To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. Adventure
- One life is an absurdly small allowance. Absurdly
- Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has. Bond
- Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its… Art
- Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked… Adequate
- The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home. Everywhere
- Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared. Acceptance