Traveller Quotations

The traveller who aspires to reach the highlands of Tibet from Kashmir cannot be borne along in a carriage or hill-cart. For much of the way, he is limited to a foot pace, and if he has regard to his horse, he walks down all rugged and steep descents, which are many, and dismounts at most bridges.

I see myself as a bit of a traveller. I am a workaholic.

The whole concept of the travel agent is absurd. They appear to be agents of the traveller but are actually agents of the airlines.

A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.

We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named John Josselyn, a man of everyday tastes and much inquisitiveness, and the pleasing literary style which comes from directness, and an absence of self-consciousness.

I went to the States with that amount of prejudice which seems the birthright of every English person, but I found that, under the knowledge of the Americans which can be attained by a traveller mixing in society in every grade, these prejudices gradually melted away.

Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? Primordial soup? The bourne from which no traveller returns? Interesting and exciting.

When some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Paul's.

A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.

Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.

The Tigris is so fierce and rapid, and swallows its alluvial banks so greedily, that it is probable that some of the buildings described by the Hebrew traveller Benjamin of Tudela as existing in the twelfth century were long since carried away.

I'm a bad traveller because I suffer from travel sickness.

But it does not commonly occur to the traveller that, just as in America, so there on the Nile the wilderness preceded all this.

They're reporting significant loss but we've seen a very good recovery in demand from the business traveller and that's high yield,

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.

Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide

It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

Much spends the traveller, more then the abider.

Im a pretty organised traveller.

A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

European travellers find the Japanese a smiling race.

Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.

...A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it is the history of every one of us. It is a great art to saunter.

I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.

There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.