Freya Stark
Freya Stark
Dame Freya Madeline Stark, Mrs Perowne, DBEwas a British explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan, as well as several autobiographical works and essays. She was one of the first non-Arabians to travel through the southern Arabian Deserts...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMemoirist
Date of Birth31 January 1893
CityParis, France
zero may manners
Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else.
boredom bed coffins
monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.
circles race soul
Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.
mistake belief static
The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction
curiosity invincible one-thing
Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
timing trouble
Nearly all trouble comes from mis-timing ...
notebook pain journey
A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial, its pleasures and pains renewable at will.
broken miracle world
Love, like broken porcelain, should be wept over and buried, for nothing but a miracle will resuscitate it: but who in this world has not for some wild moments thought to recall the irrecoverable with words?
blank-mind knowing atmosphere
The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.
association silent significance
every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance.
integrity adaptability fetters
Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.
humility humble giving
We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.
integrity excellence sake
This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity ...
fairness influential unfair
Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.