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Robert Byron was an English writer known for his interest in and descriptions of Eastern cultures. His works include travel literature, novels, and critical articles, with his most famous series being 'The Road to Oxiana'.

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Famous Robert Byron Quotes

“The murderers are supposed to have been Jewish revisionists, an extreme party that want to be rid of the English and set up a Jewish state. I don't know how long they think the Arabs would suffer a single Jew to exist once the English went." Jerusalem, Palestine, 7 September 1933”

Palestine 1933 Jewish State

Book:The Road to Oxiana

Source: The Road to Oxiana

“They say it is possible to see stars from the bottom of a well when the sun is shining.”

Central Asia

Book:The Road to Oxiana

Source: The Road to Oxiana

“I have learned that the cost of everything from a royal suite to a bottle of soda water can be halved by the simple expedient of saying it must be halved.”

Water Simple Cost Bottles I Have Learned Royal Soda

Book:The Road to Oxiana: New edition linked and annotaded

Source: The Road to Oxiana: New edition linked and annotaded

“Herat, 8 December. What a day it was! God save me from any more adventures on a drained stomach.”

Adventure Stomach December Save Me Drained

Author:Robert Byron

“All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.”

States Left Comedy Tragedy Finished

Author:Robert Byron

“The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free.”

Looks Stills Might Hours Sea Mountain Marathon Greece Musings

Author:Robert Byron

“But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice.”

Nice Ears

Author:Robert Byron

“All present life is but an interjection, An'Oh!'or 'Ah!'of joy or misery, Or a 'Ha! ha!'or 'Bah!'a yawn or 'Pooh!' Of which perhaps the latter is most true.”

Life Is Joy Misery Latter Present Life

Author:Robert Byron

“Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.”

People Humans Reason Interest Modern Nationalism Diplomacy Taboo Human Reason

Book:The Road to Oxiana: New edition linked and annotaded

Source: The Road to Oxiana: New edition linked and annotaded

“There, carried high on a bank of clouds, hovers a shape, a triangle in the sky. This is the Holy Mountain Athos, station of a faith where all the years have stopped.”

Years Sky Holy Shapes Mountain Clouds Stations Triangles

Author:Robert Byron

About the Author

Born: February 26, 1905
Died: February 24, 1941
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 10

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The Road to OxianaRelated source material

The Road to Oxiana: New edition linked and annotadedRelated source material

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