I have learned that the cost of everything from a royal suite to a bottle of soda water can be halved by the simple expedient of saying it must be ha…

- Robert Byron

The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free.

- Robert Byron

Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people li…

- Robert Byron

There, carried high on a bank of clouds, hovers a shape, a triangle in the sky. This is the Holy Mountain Athos, station of a faith where all the yea…

- Robert Byron

All present life is but an interjection, An'Oh!'or 'Ah!'of joy or misery, Or a 'Ha! ha!'or 'Bah!'a yawn or 'Pooh!' Of which perhaps the latter is mos…

- Robert Byron

But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice.

- Robert Byron

All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.

- Robert Byron

Herat, 8 December. What a day it was! God save me from any more adventures on a drained stomach.

- Robert Byron