Rose Macaulay Quotes

I love traveling the States no matter what. I love traveling abroad, going to Japan and Australia. I love it. I never get tired of it.

In the winter, I'm always in Europe. July and September are New Zealand and Chile camps. I'm always on the road.

Ever since her trip with Alexia to Scotland, Mrs. Tunstell had rather a taste for foreign travel. Alexia blamed it on the kilts.

Over the years, I've spent time in Saudi Arabia, the Bekaa Valley, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Kenya, among other vacation hotspots.

The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.

This is my first opportunity to visit this part of North Africa, so I am going to be able to go back home and talk about this beautiful country and encourage Americans to travel here.

Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express.

I didn't start traveling abroad until I was 17, but I spent many summers on the beaches of Donegal in Ireland.

The only thing to be said for air travel is speed. It makes possible travel on a scale unimaginable before our present age. Between the ages of 20 and four-score I visited every country in Europe, all save two in Latin America, ditto in Africa, and most of Asia, not counting eight trips to Australia and 60 to the United States - all by air.

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.

I like to tour, but I prefer to tour in the United States. If I go overseas, I tend to get into trouble.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

I was one of the first Japanese to visit foreign lands and was able to do so only by stealth.

A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel.

A good 60 per cent of my time I spend travelling, mostly to the U.S., Canada and Germany.

I first went to Haiti in 1979. I've gone back every few years since.

The reason for my big success in England was the Brits - they started wanting to go on holidays, like Spain and Greece.

Every year, I would spend weeks at a time in the hotels of distant cities.

An experience abroad really enriches you.

Two-thirds of us in the U.S. don't have a passport. I'm here to say that travel is the best, most mind-expanding thing we can do with our hard-earned extra money.

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.

A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his travels. Why not begin his travels at home? Would he have to go far or look very closely to discover novelties? The traveler who, in this sense, pursues his travels at home, has the advantage at any rate of a long residence in the country to make his observations correct and profitable. Now the American goes to England, while the Englishman comes to America, in order to describe the country.

I've been all over the world - honorary knighthood .

I did not go to Boston, for with regard to that place I sympathize with one of my neighbors, an old man, who has not been there since the last war, when he was compelled to go. No, I have a real genius for staying at home.

No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.