Top 8 Quotes by 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.

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.

Robert Byron

People, Reason, Modern

Robert Byron (2016). “The Road to Oxiana: New edition linked and annotaded”, p.6, MarcoPolo

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.

Robert Byron

Joy, Misery, Life Is

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.

Robert Byron

Clouds, Years, Sky

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

Robert Byron

Adventure, December, Stomach

1937 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.

Robert Byron

Simple, Water, Cost

Robert Byron (2016). “The Road to Oxiana: New edition linked and annotaded”, p.41, MarcoPolo