--- title: "George Borrow Quotes | QuotesBy.net" description: "George Borrow shares grand musings on heroes and strange lands that feel like a short adventure. Read all 13 quotes by George Borrow on QuotesBy.net." image: "https://quotesby.net/wp-content/themes/quotesby-editorial/assets/og-default.png" --- ## George Borrow quotes 1. > The author of Amelia, the most singular genius which their island ever produced, whose works it has long been the fashion to abuse in public and to read in secret. [Permalink to quote \#1](https://quotesby.net/George-Borrow/1/ "Permalink to quote 1") 2. > There is a peculiarity in the countenance, as everybody knows, which, though it cannot be described, is sure to betray the Englishman. [Permalink to quote \#2](https://quotesby.net/George-Borrow/2/ "Permalink to quote 2") Attribution disputed; shown as originally published. 3. > Sherry...a silly, 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. [Permalink to quote \#3](https://quotesby.net/George-Borrow/3/ "Permalink to quote 3") Attribution disputed; shown as originally published. 4. > There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring. [Permalink to quote \#4](https://quotesby.net/George-Borrow/4/ "Permalink to quote 4") 5. > Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly. [Permalink to quote \#5](https://quotesby.net/George-Borrow/5/ "Permalink to quote 5") 6. > If you must commit suicide - and there is no knowing to what people may be brought - always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of. [Permalink to quote \#6](https://quotesby.net/George-Borrow/6/ "Permalink to quote 6") 7. > I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people. [Permalink to quote \#7](https://quotesby.net/George-Borrow/7/ "Permalink to quote 7") 8. > 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? [Permalink to quote \#8](https://quotesby.net/George-Borrow/8/ "Permalink to quote 8") 9. > There's the wind on the heath, brother; if I could only feel that, I would gladly live for ever. [Permalink to quote \#9](https://quotesby.net/George-Borrow/9/ "Permalink to quote 9") 10. > He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is, good ale. [Permalink to quote \#10](https://quotesby.net/George-Borrow/10/ "Permalink to quote 10") ## Also attributed 1. > Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die? 2. > “\[M\]ischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.” 3. > “Youth is the only season for enjoyment, and the first twenty-five years of one's life are worth all the rest of the longest life of man, even though these be spent in penury and contempt, and the rest in possession of wealth, honors, respectability.” ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "CollectionPage", "name": "George Borrow Quotes", "url": "https://quotesby.net/George-Borrow", "about": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George Borrow" }, "hasPart": [ { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The author of Amelia, the most singular genius which their island ever produced, whose works it has long been the fashion to abuse in public and to read in secret.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George Borrow" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There is a peculiarity in the countenance, as everybody knows, which, though it cannot be described, is sure to betray the Englishman.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George Borrow" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Sherry...a silly, 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.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George Borrow" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George Borrow" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George Borrow" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If you must commit suicide - and there is no knowing to what people may be brought - always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George Borrow" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George Borrow" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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. 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