There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?
"George Henry Borrow" was an English author who wrote novels and Travel literature/travelogues based on his experiences traveling around Europe. Over the course of his wanderings, he developed a close affinity with the Romani people of Europe, who figure prominently in his work. His best known books are The Bible in Spain, the autobiographical Lavengro, and The Romany Rye, about his time with the English Romanichal (gypsies).
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous writers! More George Borrow on Wikipedia.Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.
The genuine spirit of localism.
If you must commit suicide... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.
Sherry . . . a sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day.
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.
I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
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