Quotes from Isabel Burton

People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.

I have no leisure to think of style or of polish, or to select the best language, the best English - no time to shine as an authoress. I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.

all the salt of Turkish life consists of politics and official intrigue.

Honour, not honours.

Ein Leben voller Reisen, Abenteuer und Gefahr, Sehen und Lernen, verherrlicht durch die Liebe - das wünsche ich mir