Traveller Quotes

148 Traveller quotes by 125 unique authors

They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought. — Virginia Woolf
We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest… — Charles Darwin
The mere mention of the Farakka Express, which jerks its way eastward each day from Delhi to Calcutta, is enough to throw even a seasoned… — Tahir Shah
It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they… — Charles Dickens
In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility. — James Branch Cabell
Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, - passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely… — Henry David Thoreau
Prayer cleanses from sin, drives away temptations, stamps out persecutions, comforts the fainthearted, gives new strength to the courageous, brings travellers safely home, calms the… — Tertullian
If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage by means of… — Alberto Manguel
Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted… — Charles Dickens
It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers. — George Santayana
The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of… — George Santayana
There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men… — Herman Melville
Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible. — A. A. Gill
Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers. — C.S. Lewis
Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest… — James Henry Breasted
The ambition of the spiritual traveller never wants to stop with what it has been shown save that the voices of reality call to him,… — Ibn Ata Allah
Sufficient for the day is all that we can enjoy. We cannot eat or drink or wear more than the day's supply of food and… — Charles Spurgeon
Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad. — Jonathan Swift
Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller. — William Shakespeare
That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad. — Olaf Stapledon
By the grey woods, by the swamp, where the toad and newt encamp, by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the Gouls. By each… — Edgar Allan Poe
A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition. — Maria Mitchell
I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of… — Bayard Taylor
Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to… — Oliver Goldsmith
Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through… — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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