Jan Morris Quotes

United States, Historian
October 2, 1926 – November, 20, 2020.

Jan Morris, CBE, FRSL was a Welsh historian, author and travel writer. She is known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy (1968–1978), a history of the British Empire, and for portraits of cities, notably Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Hong Kong, and New York City. A trans woman, she was published under her birth name, James, until 1972, when she had sex reassignment after transitioning from living as male to living as female.

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To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

Jan Morris
Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.

Jan Morris

Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.

Jan Morris
- Profound
- Petty
Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.

Jan Morris