William Shakespeare on Travel
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“Travell'd gallants, That fill the court with quarrels, talk, and tailors.”
- William Shakespeare, S)
“When I was at home, I was in a better place; but travellers must be content.”
- William Shakespeare, S)
“The sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.”
- William Shakespeare, S)
“Farewell, Monsieur Traveller: look you lisp and wear strange suits, disable all the benefits of your own country.”
- William Shakespeare, S)
“And in his brain, Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd With observation, the which he vents In mangled forms.”
- William Shakespeare, S)
“I spake of most disastr'us chances, * * * * Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence And portance in my travellers' history; Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak—such was the process;— And of the cannibals that each other eat.”
- William Shakespeare, S)