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
people moral aim
I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.
people arabia levels
The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues ...
people anvils virtue
I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.
people mind facts
I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving
past people use
Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future.
doors people judging
The monstrosity of bureaucracy, I thought: always the pint-pot judging the gallon, the scribe's, the door-keeper's world. Always the stupidity of people who feel certain about things they never try to find out. A world that educates people to be ignorant - that is what this world of ours is ...
deals learning love pleasant since universal
Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond, since it deals with what one is and not what one has.
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?
circles race soul
Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.
alone english-writer feelings quite town
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
carries english-writer eternal event home piece
Christmas... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
art ingredients absence
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
moving heart thinking
To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion.
acceptance personality style
Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.