Isabella Bird Quotes

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  • The 'almighty dollar' is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.

    Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.127, Courier Corporation
  • I have just dropped into the very place I have been seeking, but in everything it exceeds all my dreams.

    Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.53, Courier Corporation
  • I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.

    Dream   Looks   Might  
    Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.7, Courier Corporation
  • Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine.

    Medicine   Gold   Weight  
    Isabella Bird (2010). “The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither”, p.228, Cambridge University Press
  • Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.

    Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.128, Courier Corporation
  • Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet.

    Japan   Novelty   Planets  
    Isabella Lucy Bird (2010). “Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: Volume 1: An Account of Travels in the Interior, Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikkô and Isé”, p.45, Cambridge University Press
  • [On Malaysia:] Mr. Darwin says so truly that a visit to the tropics (and such tropics) is like a visit to a new planet. This new wonder-world, so enchanting, tantalising, intoxicating, makes me despair, for I cannot make you see what I am seeing!

    Travel   Despair   World  
  • Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home.

    Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.159, Courier Corporation
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