Gertrude Bell Quotes

It's so nice to be a spoke in the wheel, one that helps to turn, not one that hinders.

To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal. ... See the desert on a fine morning and die - if you can!

There is nothing more difficult to measure than the value of visible emotion.

I will have no locked cupboards in my life.

...the holy men sat in an atmosphere reeking of antiquity, so thick with the dust of ages that you can't see through it -nor can they.

I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk; he is the most charming of mortals.

...the holy men sat in an atmospherereeking of antiquity, so thick with thedust of ages that you can't see through it--nor can they.

Great persons, like great empires, leave their mark on history.

Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.