Quotes from George Borrow

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.

Translation is at best an echo.

There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.

Literature is a drug.

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.

Youth is the only season for enjoyment, and the first twenty-five years of one's life are worth all the rest of the longest life of man, even though those five-and-twenty be spent in penury and contempt, and the rest in the possession of wealth, honors, respectability.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

I learned… to fear God, and to take my own part.

Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.