Francis Kilvert

Why do I keep this voluminous journal? I can hardly tell. Partly because life seems to me such a curious and wonderful thing that it seems a pity that even such a humble and uneventful life as mine should pass altogether away without some …

It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain.

The Vicar of St Ives says the smell of fish there is sometimes so terrific as to stop the church clock.

Of all noxious animals, too, the most noxious is a tourist. And of all tourists the most vulgar, ill-bred, offensive and loathsome is the British tourist.