Curiosity Quote by Horace Walpole

The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at…

— Horace Walpole

“Please write and tell me about London, I live for the day when I step off the boat-train and feel its dirty sidewalks under…

— Helene Hanff

You can trace the entire history of Britain by looking at gardens.

— Monty Don

It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales - that I hope…

— Mary Roach

One more thing: Linda, can you get to Canterbury and take over my Chaucerian Society? They're at Dovecote Hostelry in the old city. We're…

— Cinda Williams Chima

“superb book Mercia and the Making of England (Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 2000).”

— Bernard Cornwell

“It is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a good eye and indefatigable…

— Anna Quindlen

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

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

“One day, I am going to write a travel guide containing only maps and addresses of hotels, and with the rest of the pages…

— Paulo Coelho

It is not a very difficult task to make what is commonly called an amusing book of travels. Any one who will tell, with…

— James Fenimore Cooper

“That of the British Museum Reading-room,’ explained Jasper; ‘known to some of us as the valley of the shadow of books. People who often…

— George Gissing