Barbaric Quote by Beryl Markham

I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth…

— Beryl Markham

“(Quoting her friend Tom Black on an amateur hunter's injury:) "Lion, rifles -- and stupidity.”

— Beryl Markham

“The only disadvantage in surviving a dangerous experience lies in the fact that your story of it tends to be anticlimactic. You can never…

— Beryl Markham

“All this, and discontent too! Otherwise, why am I sitting here dreaming of England? Why am I gazing at this campfire like a lost…

— Beryl Markham

We swung over the hills and over the town and back again, and I saw how a man can be master of a craft,…

— Beryl Markham

there are many Africas.

— Beryl Markham

Talk lives in a man’s head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing to keep…

— Beryl Markham

There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old…

— Beryl Markham

[The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.

— Beryl Markham

“From the time I arrived in British East Africa at the indifferent age of four and went through the barefoot stage of early youth…

— Beryl Markham

But, for a little while, this is the place for us -- a good place too--a place of good omen, a place of beginning…

— Beryl Markham

There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a…

— Beryl Markham