No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself read more

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become read more

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life read more

I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.

I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.