Traveller Quotes

148 Traveller quotes by 125 unique authors

To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to pursue; but is… — Anne Bronte
When the wind is right and the cloud is gone, you can see down this road as far as Darjeeling," I told her. "But it… — Deanna Raybourn
And thus ever by day and night, under the sun and under the stars, climbing the dusty hills and toiling along the weary plains, journeying… — Charles Dickens
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always… — Stendhal
The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all… — H.G. Wells
Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life — Michael Palin
The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see… — C.S. Lewis
What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less… — Hermann Hesse
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist. — Evelyn Waugh
Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled. — Alex Garland
It is like the thirsty traveller who at first sincerely sought the water of knowledge, but who later, having found it plain perhaps, proceeded to… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. His feelings are for ever on the stretch; and… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written. — Aldous Huxley
XXVIII "Truth," said a traveller, "Is a rock, a mighty fortress; "Often have I been to it, "Even to its highest tower, "From whence the… — Stephen Crane
A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul. — Khalil Gibran
The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity. The former grows… — Steven Erikson
They were now both ready, not to begin from scratch, but to continue with a love that had survived for thirteen years in hibernation. They… — Guillaume Musso
what he sought was always something lying ahead, and even if it was a matter of the past it was a past that changed gradually… — Italo Calvino
Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are… — Elias Canetti
Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day. — Jasper Fforde
It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller. — H.G. Wells
Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold? The tree says to the leaf: "That’s the cycle… — Paulo Coelho
White in the moon the long road lies, The moon stands blank above; White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from… — A. E. Housman
Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where… — William Blake
For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of… — Aldous Huxley

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