Persian Pictures Quotes

“...but while you are wondering whether she be angel or devil, she is gone.”
― Gertrude Bell, Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea

“There is a certain fine simplicity in a landscape from which the element of water, with all the varied life it brings in it murmuring train, is entirely absent.”
― Gertrude Bell, Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea

“Sunshine - sunshine! tedious, changeless, monotonous. Not that discreet English Sunshine which varies its charm with clouds, with rainbows, with golden mist... here the sun has ceased trying to please so venerable a world.”
― Gertrude Bell, Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea