Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Byron

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Robert Byron was a British travel writer, best known for his travelogue The Road to Oxiana. He was also a noted writer, art critic and historian.

British - Writer | February 26, 1905 - February 24, 1941

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Herat, 8 December. What a day it was! God save me from any more adventures on a drained stomach.

Robert Byron

All present life is but an interjection, An'Oh!'or 'Ah!'of joy or misery, Or a 'Ha! ha!'or 'Bah!'a yawn or 'Pooh!' Of which perhaps the latter is most true.

Robert Byron

But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice.

Robert Byron

Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.

Robert Byron

The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free.

Robert Byron

I have learned that the cost of everything from a royal suite to a bottle of soda water can be halved by the simple expedient of saying it must be halved.

Robert Byron

All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.

Robert Byron

There, carried high on a bank of clouds, hovers a shape, a triangle in the sky. This is the Holy Mountain Athos, station of a faith where all the years have stopped.

Robert Byron

Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Byron

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