Tourists Quotes - Page 9

• Of all noxious animals, the most noxious is a tourist. And of all tourists the most vulgar, ill-bred, offensive and loathsome is the British tourist.

  Francis Kilvert

  Animal, Offensive, British

  W. Plomer (ed.) 'Selections from the Diary of the Rev. Francis Kilvert' (1938-40) 5 April 1870

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• Tourism as a number-one industry is a terrible, terrible idea for any city, especially New York. If you were going to turn a city, which is a place where people live, into a tourist attraction, you're going to have to make it a place that people who don't live here, like. So I object to living in a place for people who don't live here.

  Fran Lebowitz

  New York, Cities, Ideas

  "Fran Lebowitz to Tourists: 'Stay Home'" by David Hershkovits, www.papermag.com. September 17, 2014.

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• Ive been on Wall Street once in my life in 1980 as a tourist. I went to see the stock exchange when I was 18 years old. Im not a Wall Street lawyer, Im a Stanwix Street lawyer. Stanwix Street is a street in downtown Pittsburgh.

  Keith Rothfus

  Wall, Years, Downtown

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• The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not other tourists do the same?

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Travel, Rose, Honey

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1856). “Wise-saws: Or, Sam Slick in Search of a Wife”, p.17

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• The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms; but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over.

  Agnes Repplier

  Travel, Complaining, Would Be

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• it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.

  Agnes Repplier

  Travel, Blessing, Trials

  Agnes Repplier (1898). “Varia”

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• One thing about tourists is that it is very easy to get away from them. Like ants they follow a trail and a few yards each side of that trail there are none.

  Nancy Mitford

  Travel, Yards, Ants

  Nancy Mitford (1962). “The water beetle”

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• Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate.

  Shana Alexander

  Travel, Insects, Plates

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.

  Freya Stark

  Blank Mind, Knowing, Atmosphere

  Freya Stark (2011). “Baghdad Sketches: Journeys Through Iraq”, p.11, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• Who are the advertising men kidding, besides the European tourist? Between the tired, sad, gentle faces of the subway riders and the grinning Holy Families of the Ad-Mass, there exists no possibility of even a wishful identification.

  Mary McCarthy

  Tired, Men, Faces

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The Humanist in the Bathtub”

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• I've got to get the ultimate in composition today. or I've got to get the ultimate in light, I'll stay here until it appears. I was not making any demands. I went purely to see what would come, what might be there. I didn't have to be archaeologist or historian or tourist, I just needed to be available.

  Paul Caponigro

  Light, Demand, Might

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• The French are not rude. They just happen to hate you. But that is no reason to bypass this beautiful country, whose master chefs have a well-deserved worldwide reputation for trying to trick people into eating snails. Nobody is sure how this got started. Probably a couple of French master chefs were standing around one day, and they found a snail, and one of them said: 'I bet that if we called this something like `escargot,' tourists would eat it.' Then they had hearty laugh, because 'escargot' is the French word for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm.'

  Dave Barry

  Beautiful, Country, Couple

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.127, Ballantine Books

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• I must admit that the existence of Disneyland (which I know is real) proves that we are not living in Judaea in 50 AD. . . . Saint Paul would never go near Disneyland. Only children, tourists, and visiting Soviet high officials ever go to Disneyland. Saints do not.

  Philip K. Dick

  Children, Real, Only Child

  Philip K. Dick (1985). “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon”, Doubleday Books

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• Even a tourist can tell in a Roman street that he is in something and not outside of something as he would be in most cities. In Rome to go out is to go home.

  Eleanor Clark

  Home, Rome, Cities

  Eleanor Clark (1952). “Rome and a Villa”

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• For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. ... It is a city that offers me more people -- more different kinds of people -- than I could otherwise possibly have come to know in a lifetime: the native Washingtonian, the local merchant, the foreign diplomat, the ever-present tourist, the public servant, the journalist, the president, the friend.

  Katharine Graham

  Eight, Cities, People

  Katharine Graham (2009). “Katharine Graham's Washington”, p.16, Vintage

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• An ugly thing, that is what you are when you become a tourist, an ugly, empty thing, a stupid thing, a piece of rubbish pausing here and there to gaze at this and taste that, and it will never occur to you that the people who inhabit the place in which you have just paused cannot stand you.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Travel, Stupid, Ugly Things

  Jamaica Kincaid (2000). “A Small Place”, p.17, Macmillan

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• From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat.

  Margaret Halsey

  Oxford, Mind, Visitors

  Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

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• It is charming the way everyone in the South says, 'Come back.' This is the regulation farewell at gas stations, soda fountains, general stores, tourist camps. 'Come back,' they call, 'come back.' Do they feel marooned in one place, lost, needing to believe someone will return to share their exile on the similar main streets, in the varied but always new-looking land?

  Martha Gellhorn

  Believe, Farewell, Land

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The View from the Ground”, p.85, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Space tourism is a logical outgrowth of the adventure tourist market.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Adventure, Space, Tourism

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• Wholesome food is wholesome food anywhere. I may not like something but, generally speaking, if it's a busy, street food stall serving mystery meat in India, they're in the business of serving their neighbors. They're not targeted toward a transient crowd of tourists that won't be around tomorrow. They're not in the business of poisoning their neighbors.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Meat, India, Crowds

  "Anthony Bourdain The ‘Parts Unknown’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. January 9, 2015.

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• The critics are like tourists who return from a trip saying they've "done" Machu Picchu: "Okay, we've done magical realism," so now we can throw it out.

  Gore Vidal

  Done, Return, Machu Picchu

  "The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

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• Your responsibility is to be an explorer, not a tourist in this adventure that is your life.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Life, Adventure, Responsibility

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2012). “Honey in Your Heart: Ways to See and Savor the Simple Good Things”, p.16, Conari Press

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• Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. Thats always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat.

  Curtis Stone

  Want, Language, Restaurants

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• I'm perpetual tourist, and that's the best way to travel. Nobody gets used to you, you make new friends without having to hear anyone's everyday problems, and you jet back still feeling like a know-it-all.

  John Waters

  Everyday Problems, Feelings, Way

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• ... the world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists. ... a kind of perfection of existence was always close at hand, and no one reached for it.

  Craig L. Rice

  Beautiful, Hands, Perfection

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