Appetite Quote by Dervla Murphy

“Even a brief glimpse of what we were is valuable to help understand what we are”

— Dervla Murphy

one feels guilty on behalf of Western civilisation. What damage are we doing, blindly and swiftly, to those races who are being taught that…

— Dervla Murphy

The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.

— Dervla Murphy

On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.

— Dervla Murphy

Undoubtedly the Afghans must be, by our standards, the best-looking people in the world. They have everything; height, proportions, carriage, features and complexion.

— Dervla Murphy

“I thank God for my sanguine temperament, which refuses to allow me to believe in disaster until it is finally manifest”

— Dervla Murphy

[On Addis Ababa:] Among the city's handicaps are an immaturity for which no one can be blamed, as it was founded only eighty years…

— Dervla Murphy

Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner.

— Dervla Murphy

one of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition.

— Dervla Murphy

hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater.

— Dervla Murphy

On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to India...However, I…

— Dervla Murphy

Is this something else our age does - on the one hand make communication easier than ever before, while on the other hand widening…

— Dervla Murphy