Quotes by Jan Morris

About Jan Morris:

Jan Morris is a Welsh historian, author and travel writer. She is known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy (1968–78), a history of the British Empire, and for portraits of cities, notably Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Hong Kong, and New York City.
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It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more in the nature of a curve, and it is a fact that Welsh affairs are entangled always in parabola, double-meaning and implication. This m...

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The language itself, whether you speak it or not, whether you love it or hate it, is like some bewitchment or seduction from the past, drifting across the country down the centuries, subtly affecting the nations sensibilities even when its meaning is...

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Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.

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To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

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Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.

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Shaggy existentialists in frayed sandals, dilettantes by the score, spies by the portfolio.

Jan Morris

There are people everywhere who form a Fourth World, or a diaspora of their own. They are the lordly ones! They come in all colors. They can be Christians or Hindus or Muslims or Jews or pagans or atheists. They can be young or old, men or women, sol...

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Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.

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Author Bio

  • NameJan Morris
  • DescriptionBritish historian
  • BornOctober 2, 1926
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionHistorian; Author
  • AwardsCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire