Top 125 Quotes & Sayings by Freya Stark - Page 3

Whoever designed this frigging map was having a laugh. Just around the corner, my arse.

It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think.

If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.

We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it keeps dullness out of religion and poetry. It is probable that without it we might die.

It seems to me that the only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war: mountains and seafaring are the only ones I know. But it must be something sufficiently serious not to be a game and sufficiently dangerous to exercise those virtues which otherwise get no chance.