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George Borrow Quotes

«Translation is at best an echo.»
«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.»
«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.»
«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?»
Author: George Borrow
«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»
Author: George Borrow | About: Idleness | Keywords: vacuum
«There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.»
Author: George Borrow | Keywords: islands, the British
«The genuine spirit of localism.»
Author: George Borrow | Keywords: localism
«Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one»
Author: George Borrow | About: Youth | Keywords: One Fine Day
«Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.»
Author: George Borrow | Keywords: preventive, Preventives
«I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.»
Author: George Borrow | Keywords: roof, The Politics