Quotes by : Beryl Markham

We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study....

(Quoting her friend Tom Black on an amateur hunter's injury:)"Lion, rifles -- and stupidity.

You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.....

From the time I arrived in British East Africa at the indifferent age of four and went through the barefoot....

There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of....

There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes....

We swung over the hills and over the town and back again, and I saw how a man can be master of a craft,....

Success breeds confidence.

(On WWI:)A man of importance had been shot at a place I could not pronounce in Swahili or in English,....

…it was even more disconcerting to examine your charts before a proposed flight only to find that in....