Cadence Quote by Patrick O'Brian

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.” Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)”

— Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

“finally, that the queen wants a brave, intelligent, devoted man to make a journey to London for her. I have at least two of…

— Alexandre Dumas

“The most difficult journeys often take us where we were meant to go... B”

— Nicholas Sparks

“When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like…

— Tahir Shah

“Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.”

— Ken Poirot

“And you, Mary, if you must run off to London, why do it in that unfinished manner, so that I was left without the…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“the luxury vacations had come as a personal affront to a woman who had survived the Great Depression, a world war, the death of…

— Karin Slaughter

“Servants were the main topic of conversation in St. Mary Mead, so it was not difficult to lead the conversation in that direction.”

— Agatha Christie

“Or there were the poets and thinkers. Suppose he had had that passion, and had gone to Sir William Bradshaw, a great doctor yet…

— Virginia Woolf

“The traveler knows the grace of travel.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“His face searching the bus windows looked expectant, impatient, and a little anxious. It was a husband's face. Familiar, known, increasing beloved. Mary Ann,…

— Ann Head

“Sometimes it was about the journey and not the destination.”

— Scott Marlowe