Quote: A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug. [George Borrow]
Quote: I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep. [George Borrow]
Quote: Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime. [George Borrow]
Quote: The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. 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. [George Borrow]
Quote: 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. [George Borrow]