The Last Enemy Quotes

“It is maintained by some that travel has no educational value, that a person with sensibility can gain as rich an experience of life by staying right where he is as by wandering around the world, and that a person with no sensibility may as well remain at home anyway. To me this is nonsense, for if one is a bore, I maintain that it is better to be a bore about Peshawar than Upper Tooting.”
― Richard Hillary, The Last Enemy: The Centenary Collection

“Oxford has been called many names, from 'the city of beautiful nonsense' to 'an organized waste of time”
― Richard Hillary, The Last Enemy: The Centenary Collection