Tourist Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to…

— 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 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

From a tourist's point of view, you finally have time to travel, but you need to spend your time looking after your child. Club…

— Guo Guangchang

The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is…

— Paul Theroux

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

— Elizabeth Drew

And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful,…

— Pico Iyer

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

— Pico Iyer

Some travelers think they want to go to foreign places but are dismayed when the places turn out actually to be foreign.

— Margaret Atwood

the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.

— Clare Boothe Luce

Travelers must be content.

— William Shakespeare

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find is an honest friend. He is a fortunate…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.

— George Carlin

A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.

— Henry David Thoreau

There's a new tourist born every minute.

— James Murray