One immense old lady has a family of lively young crocodiles running over her, evidently playing like a lot of kittens. The heavy musky smell they gi…

- Mary Kingsley

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

- Mary Kingsley

If you see a thing that looks like a cross between a flying lobster and the figure of Abraxas on a Gnostic gem, do not pay it the least attention, ne…

- Mary Kingsley

There is one distinctive charm about fishing - its fascinations will stand any climate. You may sit crouching on ice over a hole inside the arctic ci…

- Mary Kingsley

the African leopard is an audacious animal, although it is ungrateful of me to say a word against him, after the way he has let me off personally ...…

- Mary Kingsley

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

- Mary Kingsley

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

- Mary Kingsley

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

- Mary Kingsley

It is a generally received opinion that there are too many books in the world already. I cannot, however, subscribe to any Institution that proposes …

- Mary Kingsley