Mary Kingsley

One immense old lady has a family of lively young crocodiles running over her, evidently playing like a lot of kittens. The…

— Mary Kingsley

There is one distinctive charm about fishing - its fascinations will stand any climate. You may sit crouching on ice over a…

— Mary Kingsley

I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible.

— Mary Kingsley

Ambas and Bobia Islands are perfect gems of beauty. Mondoleh I cannot say I admire. It always looks to me exactly like…

— Mary Kingsley

West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with

— Mary Kingsley

If you see a thing that looks like a cross between a flying lobster and the figure of Abraxas on a Gnostic…

— Mary Kingsley

Nobody has ever been able to define Jazz satisfactorily. This is probably because anyone who was capable of doing so never really…

— Mary Kingsley

[Responding to repeated questions about traveling in Africa without a husband:] I am looking for him.

— Mary Kingsley

It is my melancholy fate to like so many people I profoundly disagree with and often heartily dislike people who agree with…

— Mary Kingsley

the African leopard is an audacious animal, although it is ungrateful of me to say a word against him, after the way…

— Mary Kingsley

It is a generally received opinion that there are too many books in the world already. I cannot, however, subscribe to any…

— Mary Kingsley

the grim, grand African forests are like a great library, in which, so far, I can do little more than look at…

— Mary Kingsley