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Travel Quotes by Tahir Shah
- Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent…
- As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.
- For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.
- Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would…
- One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.
- The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after two minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from…
- In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India…
- I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget…
- The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense…
- On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish.
- Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.
- A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation.
More Travel Quotes
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel. — Neil Armstrong
- Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have… — David Attenborough
- I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home. — David Attenborough
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that. — Margaret Atwood
- I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. — Saint Augustine
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. — Jane Austen