Quotes by George Borrow

• I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
• Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.
• Two great talkers will not travel far together.
• Translation is at best an echo.
• There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.
• It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
• A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.
• Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.