Quotes by : Beryl Markham

Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?

What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough....

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

It was ... disconcerting to examine your charts before a proposed flight only to find that in many cases....

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

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

To venture ... close (to a lion) on foot ... would mean the sudden shattering of any kindly belief that....

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

There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa -- and as many books about it as you could....

Success breeds confidence.