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
Freya Stark quotes about
timing trouble
Nearly all trouble comes from mis-timing ...
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.
fairness influential unfair
Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.
coins way easy
Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.