Blue Quote by E. M. Forster

in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to…

— Madame de Stael

“Remember that it's only by going off the track that you get to know the country...And don't, let me beg you, go with that…

— Anonymous

Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full or choice, free to visit the stately pleasure domes, make love in the morning, sketch…

— Frances Mayes

“Remember that a little learning can be a pleasant thing. Italy gives much, in beauty, gaiety, diversity of arts and landscapes, good humor and…

— Kate Simon

The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

— E. M. Forster

“We residents sometimes pity you poor tourists not a little - handed about like a parcel of goods from Venice to Florence, from Florence…

— E.M. Forster

To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful chords awake…

— D. H. Lawrence

“A traveller moves among real people in their own milieu and learns from them, soaking up their wisdom and philosophy, their way of being…

— Roxanne Reid

“Time, if not space, renders all of us travelers. Cling as we might, we are ultimately compelled to let go of the familiar, to…

— Jason Roberts

More and more, I am beginning to understand why every one who has ever accomplished anything really great and truly beautiful in the past…

— Marie Van Vorst

Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.The explorer seeks theundiscovered, the traveler that which has been…

— Paul Fussell