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Freya Stark, born on January 31, 1893, and died on May 9, 1993, was a renowned British explorer. She is best known for her expeditions in the Middle East, where she conducted in-depth research on local culture, history, and geography.

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Famous Freya Stark Quotes

“One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there: and I believe this difficulty in making allowance for the tide is the reason for half the broken friendships.”

People Thinking Believe Stills Reason Moving I Believe Half Broken Difficulty Affection Fixed Quantity Tides Going Out Allowance Friendship Broken

Author:Freya Stark

“The monstrosity of bureaucracy, I thought: always the pint-pot judging the gallon, the scribe's, the door-keeper's world. Always the stupidity of people who feel certain about things they never try to find out. A world that educates people to be ignorant - that is what this world of ours is.”

People World Feels Trying Certain Doors This World Judging Stupidity Ignorant Pot Educate Bureaucracy Keepers Pints Gallons Monstrosity Scribes People Stupidity

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.”

People Asks Moral Aim Ask Me Dislike Shocked

Author:Freya Stark

“There are, I sometimes think, only two sorts of people in this world - the settled and the nomad - and there is a natural antipathy between them, whatever the land to which they may belong.”

People Thinking World May Two Sometimes Natural Land This World Nomad Antipathy

Book:A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen

Source: A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen

“I first noticed how the sound of water is like the talk of human voices, and would sometimes wake in the night and listen, thinking that a crowd of people were coming through the woods.”

People Thinking Firsts Humans Sometimes Night Sound Voice Water Crowds Woods Human Voice Sound Of Water

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues.”

People Humans Human Beings Levels Virtue Complicated Likes Charm Perpetual Traveler Sentimental Arabia Pedantic

Book:A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen

Source: A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen

“I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.”

People Virtue Dislike Anvils

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“... I want to be one of those people who are always to be found at home, nice restful people whom everybody likes because they give a feeling of permanence to this rushing world.”

People World Want Giving Feelings Home Found Nice Likes Rushing Permanence Restful

Book:Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46

Source: Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46

“We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.”

People Giving Accepting Humility Humble Ease

Author:Freya Stark

“I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving”

People Mind Made Stills Facts Receiving

Book:Letters: The furnace and the cup, 1914-30

Source: Letters: The furnace and the cup, 1914-30

“Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future.”

People Use Past Stuff Forget Records Cracks Accomplishing Something

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful manners and I like most of the American voices. On the other hand I don't believe they have any God and their hats are frightful. On balance I prefer the Arabs.”

People Ifs Believe Hands Would Be America Voice Balance Mets Complexes Don't Believe British Manners Pleasant Charm Hats Charming Cheerful

Book:Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46

Source: Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46

About the Author

Born: January 31, 1893
Died: May 9, 1993
Known for: Explorer
Quotes: 126

Books & Sources

The Journey's Echo: SelectionsRelated source material

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Perseus In The Wind: A Life of TravelRelated source material

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Baghdad Sketches: Journeys Through IraqRelated source material

Ionia: A QuestRelated source material

Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46Related source material

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