Beirut Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

Lebanon is a small country, and we have a saying: as long as you know your size, you know, just try to protect what…

— Saad Hariri

“Ambassadors to Lebanon are invariably career State Department employees, this a glaring exception to the custom wherein lead diplomatic posts are reserved as political…

— Ward Larsen

I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I…

— Alexei Sayle

Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

When I arrived in Beirut from Europe, I felt the oppressive, damp heat, saw the unkempt palm trees and smelt the Arabic coffee, the…

— Robert Fisk

My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller

— Mahmoud Darwish

If you wear Arab things, wear the best. Clothes are significant among the tribes, and you must wear the appropriate, and appear at ease…

— T. E. Lawrence

It's my manifest destiny to wear a skirt in all countries.

— Eddie Izzard

Every jacket I make has interior pockets big enough to store a book and a sandwich and a passport.

— Rick Owens

We runnin around in thousand-dollar clown suits, Better get some boots when Lucifer turn your city to Beirut.

— Ras Kass

There's a lot of buying power from the Middle East. Girls from Dubai want to be able to wear Asos, and you have people…

— Yuna

If you actually look like your passport photo, you aren't well enough to travel.

— Vivian Fuchs