Top 6 Gertrude Bell Quotes
#1. All the earth is seamed with roads, and all the sea is furrowed with the tracks of ships, and over all the roads and all the waters a continuous stream of people passes up and down - traveling, as they say, for their pleasure. What is it, I wonder, that they go out to see?
Gertrude Bell
#2. The holy men sat in an atmosphere
reeking of antiquity, so thick with the
dust of ages that you can't see through it
nor can they.
Gertrude Bell
#3. To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal ... See the desert on a fine morning and die - if you can!
Gertrude Bell
#5. I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk; he is the most charming of mortals ...
Gertrude Bell
#6. It's so nice to be a spoke in the wheel, one that helps to turn, not one that hinders.
Gertrude Bell
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