Traveller Quotes

148 Traveller quotes by 125 unique authors

All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases… — Ernest Thompson Seton
But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across a continent? If… — Peter Kropotkin
Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and… — Anthony Trollope
At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec… — Horace Walpole
A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from. — Lin Yutang
The artist, a traveller on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being. — Francois Delsarte
There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's… — Patrick MacGill
We tax air passengers like cigarettes and alcohol - we impose sin taxes on travellers. — Gordon Bethune
A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he,… — Plutarch
It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although the traveller is… — Claudio Magris
Travellers are just commuters with a wider perspective. — Unknown Author
At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming. — Lionel Blue
Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders. — Rabindranath Tagore
Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who… — Richard Francis Burton
The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity… — Aldous Huxley
Im a pretty organised traveller. — Penny Lancaster
But nothing will persuade me that the mere fact of being in a place is enough in itself to justify the effort of getting out… — Jenny Diski
The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons. — Ella Maillart
It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the… — Alexander Pushkin
An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces… — Russell Hoban
The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but… — E. M. Forster
Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther… — Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
Every journey has a secret destination of which the traveller is unaware. — Martin Buber
I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot. — Henry David Thoreau
Easy roads make sleepy travellers. — Charles Spurgeon

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