Mary Kingsley Quotes

West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with

It is my melancholy fate to like so many people I profoundly disagree with and often heartily dislike people who agree with me.

I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible.

[Responding to repeated questions about traveling in Africa without a husband:] I am looking for him.