Isabel Burton quotes

“I have no leisure to think of style or of polish, or to select the best language, the best English - no time to shine as an authoress. I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.”
-- Isabel Burton

Source : Lady Isabel Burton (1898). “The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton”

#Thinking Quotes #Shining Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“where I have seen good I shall speak of it with pleasure, and where I have seen the reverse, I shall try to be silent; for a book is meant to give pleasure, and pain that is inflicted in black and white lasts for ever.”
-- Isabel Burton

Source : Lady Isabel Burton (1875). “The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land: From My Private Journal”, p.3

#Pain Quotes #Book Quotes #Black And White Quotes

“I saw the desert, it grew upon me. There are times, when I have sorrows, that I hunger and thirst for it ...”
-- Isabel Burton

Source : Lady Isabel Burton (1875). “The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land: From My Private Journal”, p.2

#Sorrow Quotes #Desert Quotes #Saws Quotes

“all the salt of Turkish life consists of politics and official intrigue.”
-- Isabel Burton

Source : Lady Isabel Burton (1875). “The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land: From My Private Journal”, p.3

#Europe Quotes #Salt Quotes #Intrigue Quotes

“People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.”
-- Isabel Burton

Source : Lady Isabel Burton (1875). “The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land: From My Private Journal”, p.262

#Selfish Quotes #People Quotes #Mind Quotes

“He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool -- shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple -- teach him.”
-- Isabel Burton

Source : Lady Isabel Burton (1893). “The Life of Captain Sir Richd. F. Burton”

#Knowledge Quotes #Simple Quotes #Fool Quotes

“Without any cant, does not Providence provide wonderfully for us?”
-- Isabel Burton

Source : Lady Isabel Burton (1879). “Arabia, Egypt, India: A Narrative of Travel”, London, W. Mullan and son

#Doe Quotes #Providence Quotes #Cant Quotes

“Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.”

Source : Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007

“Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.”

“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”

“Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.”

“if you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it.”

“Wait, so @ToysRUs pulled all of the Breaking Bad figures from their shelves and still sells Barbie? Hmmmm...I wonder what is more damaging?”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 23, 2014

“I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.”

“Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis ...”

“Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!”

“We're all waiting for the opportunity to do big films but you have to wait your turn - unless you get offered something like Twilight when you're 20! Otherwise, you just have to keep slogging away.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk