Isabel Burton 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

  Knowledge, Simple, Fool

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

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• 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

  Thinking, Shining, Waiting

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• People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.

  Isabel Burton

  Selfish, Suffering Of Others, People

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

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• I saw the desert, it grew upon me. There are times, when I have sorrows, that I hunger and thirst for it.

  Isabel Burton

  Sorrow, Desert, Hunger And Thirst

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

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• 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

  Pain, Book, Black And White

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

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• all the salt of Turkish life consists of politics and official intrigue.

  Isabel Burton

  Europe, Salt, Intrigue

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

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• I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.

  Isabel Burton

  Thinking, Waiting

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

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• Without any cant, does not Providence provide wonderfully for us?

  Isabel Burton

  Doe, Providence, Cant

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

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