City S Quotes by Jan Morris

More Quotes by Jan Morris

Jan Morris has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are…
• Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very…
• There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster's guide to Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is to wander…
• I had reached the conclusion myself that sex was not a division but a continuum, that almost nobody was altogether of one…
• I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.
• I’ve become obsessed with the idea of reconciliation, particularly reconciliation with nature but with people too, of course. I think that travel…
• The more I was treated as a woman, the more woman I became. A adapted willy-nilly. If I was assumed to be…
• I know well the delectable thrill of moving into a new house somewhere altogether else, in somebody else’s county, where the climate…
• Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles…
• It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more…
• The language itself, whether you speak it or not, whether you love it or hate it, is like some bewitchment or seduction…
• There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of…

See all 21 quotes by Jan Morris »