Quotes About Travel

Don't send a poet to London.

Why is it, do you suppose," said Edward, "that the Continental breakfast has only to cross the Channel to be so damp and depressing. It seems simple enough; why does it travel so badly? In England one wonders whether it is really meant to be eaten. Here it is invariably ambrosial." "It is the tyranny of the toast rack," said Maria.

I said I liked Amundsen and Scott and I liked King Solomon's Mines and I liked everything by Dumas and I liked The Bad Seed and The Hound of the Baskervilles and I liked The Name of the Rose but the Italian was rather difficult.

freedom of movement in 1940s Spain existed only as an exceptional political or social privilege: very few ordinary people escaped surveillance in a society in which travel anywhere required a safe conduct or pass from the authorities.

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

The faster we travel, the less there is to see.

Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself into one part and then another. It gets more challenging as you get older, and it's not just having a daughter, it's wanting to have your own life and be yourself.

Just as London is not really England, Copenhagen is not, I am reliably informed, 'the real Denmark'.

That's for me. I am a great lover of 'I was there' books.

From where I sit, London's a lot closer than 17th street.

This is Great Tew. You can't find it on the map, you have to get lost on the way to Oxford.

You must take a year off, one of these days, before you're old and tired and weighed down by responsibility. Go away somewhere, and read. Read all the important books. Educate yourself, then you'll see the world in a different way.

The further from home you wander, the closer you get to Siberia.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

Paris'te ayn? evi payla?t???m Betty Rayn adl? k?z olmasayd? Yunanistan'a belki de hiç gitmeyecektim.

The best path through life is the highway.

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.

We grew up in places like Georgetown and Alexandria and Chevy Chase; we were flown in great thumping silver Pan American airplanes all the way to Rome, all the way to Greece, Beirut, Damascus, Baghdad, Hamra, Cairo; we went to American Community Schools; we spent weekends swimming at the American Club.

Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

The swiftest traveler is he that goes afoot.

Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us.

Happiness isn't a destination, it's a mode of travel. Don't worry be happy.

The saying Getting there is half the fun became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.