Active Quote by Daniel J. Boorstin

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The tourist debauches the great monuments of antiquity, a comic figure, always inapt in his comments, incongruous in his appearance; ...avarice and deceit attack…

— Evelyn Waugh

The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“It's easy to identify tourists on Edinburgh's Royal mile. They're the ones bound in knitted scarves, wearing puffa jackets and woolly hats no matter…

— Gabriella Bennett

To be a tourist is to escape accountability.

— Don DeLillo

“I began to think of myself as a perennial tourist. There was something agreeable about this. To be a tourist is to escape accountability.…

— Don DeLillo

Traveling for modeling has been great, but I never really have much time to live the tourist life while in all the different cities.

— Rila Fukushima

Gloucester's not some chi-chi tourist town. It's a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place.

— Israel Horovitz

“She was a stranger in her own life, a tourist in her own body.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

Jamaica's a country of great dichotomy. On the one hand you have a tourist industry with great beaches and resorts, but on the other…

— Michael Franti

China is one of those vast, continental conglomerates that... I mean, if they were to start a tourist trade in China, they'd just bus…

— Damon Albarn