Quotations From GEORGE BORROW

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• 1.

  I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people—the worship of spirits is synonymous with barbarism—it is mere fetish.... There is something philosophic in the worship of the heroes of the human race.

  George Borrow (1803-1881), British author. An elderly individual, in Lavengro, ch. 23 (1851).
  
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• 2.

  If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.

  George Borrow (1803-1881), British author. An "elderly individual," in Lavengro, ch. 23 (1851).
  
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• 3.

  There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

  George Borrow (1803-1881), British author. Jasper, in Lavengro, ch. 25 (1851).
  
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• 4.

  I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

  George Borrow (1803-1881), British author. The Bible in Spain, ch. 16 (1843).
  
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