Freya Stark Quotes

Most popular Freya Stark Quotes

The art of advertisement—untruthfulness combined with repetition. - Freya Stark quote.
The art of advertisement—untruthfulness combined with repetition.
— Freya Stark East is West

advertising

We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease. - Freya Stark quote.
We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.
— Freya Stark Perseus in the Wind

charity generosity service

Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations. - Freya Stark quote.
Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.
— Freya Stark
This is excellence—the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity. - Freya Stark quote.
This is excellence—the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.
— Freya Stark The Arch of the Zodiac

excellence integrity

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. - Freya Stark quote.
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
— Freya Stark The Journey’s Echo

happiness principles

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. - Freya Stark quote.
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
— Freya Stark

Travel

Though it may be inessential to the imagination. travelling is necessary to an understanding of men. - Freya Stark quote.
Though it may be inessential to the imagination. travelling is necessary to an understanding of men.
— Freya Stark

Travel

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good. - Freya Stark quote.
Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.
— Freya Stark
Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared. - Freya Stark quote.
Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.
— Freya Stark The Arch of the Zodiac

style

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to do it rightly is an art like any other. - Freya Stark quote.
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to do it rightly is an art like any other.
— Freya Stark The Freya Stark Story

family absence

All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand—any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it. - Freya Stark quote.
All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand—any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.
— Freya Stark Traveler's Prelude

personal father

Manners are like the zero in arithmetic; they may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal to the value of everything else. - Freya Stark quote.
Manners are like the zero in arithmetic; they may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal to the value of everything else.
— Freya Stark The Journey’s Echo

manners

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. - Freya Stark quote.
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.
— Freya Stark The Cornhill Magazine

journeys

One is apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving sea with tide always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there. - Freya Stark quote.
One is apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving sea with tide always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there.
— Freya Stark The Coast of Incense

affection

Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art. - Freya Stark quote.
Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.
— Freya Stark

Travel