Sourced and curated.

It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.

Aldous Huxley

1925

★ 0.9

Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.

Charles Kuralt

1990

★ 0.9

Play · Comedy (play) · Romantic comedy (play)

Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night · 1602

★ 1.1

Travel writing

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

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sightseeing.”

1879

★ 1.1

Daniel Boorstin

1962

★ 1.7

Novel · Satire

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to county, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond.

Oliver Goldsmith

1761

★ 1.8

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Francis Bacon

1625

★ 1.9

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather Resemble copper wire, or brass, Which gets the narrower by going farther!

Thomas Hood

1845

★ 1.9

Travel writing

What an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home, and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile attempt to recapture the comforts that you wouldn't have lost if you hadn't left home in the first place.

Bill Bryson

Neither Here Nor There · 1991

★ 1.9

When a traveller returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath travelled altogether behind him.

Francis Bacon

1625

★ 1.9

Novel

A man should know something of his own country, too, before he goes abroad.

Laurence Sterne

Tristram Shandy · 1765

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

It is by crawling on the face of it that one learns a country.

Evelyn Waugh

1934

★ 1.9

Novel · Detective fiction

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport."

Douglas Adams

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul · 1988

★ 1.9

Essay

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

All the things you probably hate about travelling—the recycled air, the artificial lighting, the digital juice dispensers, the cheap sushi—are warm reminders that I'm home.

1881

★ 2.0

Film · Comedy drama (film) · Comedy drama

Ryan Bingham

Up in the Air · 2009

★ 2.0

Letter

Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.

Boris Pasternak

1958

★ 2.7

Letter

Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.

Lord Chesterfield

1747

★ 3.5

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

George Moore

1916

★ 3.5

Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.

Thomas Fuller (churchman)

1642

★ 3.5

Novel · Children's literature

Here to-day, up and off to somewhere else to-morrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows · 1908

★ 3.5

I traveled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor, England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee.

William Wordsworth

I Traveled Among Unknown Men · 1807

★ 3.6

Religious literature · Philosophical literature

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence, and they think they have seen something.

Soren Kierkegaard

1843

★ 3.6

Novel · Magazine

They say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind.

G.K. Chesterton

1921

★ 3.6

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

T.S. Eliot

1942

★ 3.6

Not bound to swear allegiance to any master, wherever the wind takes me I travel as a visitor.

Horace

Epistles · 20 BC

★ 3.7

Biography

So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Samuel Johnson

James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D · 1776

★ 3.7

Novel

"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.

George Eliot

Felix Holt, the Radical · 1866

★ 3.8

Novel · Adventure novel

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

Mark Twain

Tom Sawyer Abroad · 1894

★ 3.8

Travel light and you can sing in the robber's face.

Juvenal

Satires · 127

★ 3.9

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

My course is set for an uncharted sea.

Dante Alighieri

Paradiso · 1321

★ 4.0

Travel writing

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

William Hazlitt

On Going on a Journey · 1822

★ 5.2

Novel

Railway termini... Are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

E.M. Forster

Howards End · 1910

★ 5.2

They change their skies above them, But not their hearts that roam!

Rudyard Kipling

1895

★ 5.5

Happy is he who, like Ulysses, has made a glorious voyage.

Joachim du Bellay

Les Regrets · 1558

★ 6.9

Autobiography and memoir · Travel writing

We are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world....and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend.

Autobiography and memoir · Travel writing

1879

★ 6.9

Letter

See many skies and seas.

Gustave Flaubert

1857

★ 7.0

There are no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.

1883

★ 7.0

Novel · Modernist literature

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time · 1922

★ 7.0