George Borrow Quotes (15 Quotes)

There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

There's night and day, brother, both sweet things sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother who would wish to die

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.

The author of Amelia' Fielding, the most singular genius which their island ever produced, whose works it has long been the fashion to abuse in public and to read in secret.

If you must commit suicide... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.

Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Sherry . . . a sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day.

I have always been a friend to hero-worship it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people . . .

Translation is at best an echo.

The genuine spirit of localism.

The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.