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41 Quotes About England & The British Culture

Are you looking for quotes about England for your Instagram captions? Then we’ve got you covered with 19 of our favourite quotes about the country we will always call home. 

We’ve also included a few quotes about British culture at the end too – ones that we find both funny and oh-so-true . 

19 of Our Favourite Quotes About England

“it is not summer, england doesn’t have summer, it has continuous autumn with a fortnight’s variation here and there.”.

– Natasha Pulley, a British author best known for her debut novel: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

“Oh, to be in England n ow that April’s there, And whoever wakes in England s ees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf r ound the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough i n England – now!!”

– Robert Browning, an English poet and playwright from the 1800s

“Growing up in the English countryside, I feel like I’m in a Jane Austen novel when I walk around.” 

– Lily Collins, an English-American actress, model and writer

“I live in the English countryside, so I’m surrounded by magpies.”

– Kenneth Branagh, a Northern Irish actor, director, film producer and screenwriter

“I know this goes without saying, but Stonehenge really was the most incredible accomplishment. It took five hundred men just to pull each sarsen, plus a hundred more to dash around positioning the rollers. Just think about it for a minute. Can you imagine trying to talk six hundred people into helping you drag a fifty-ton stone eighteen miles across the countryside and muscle it into an upright position, and then saying, ‘Right, lads! Another twenty like that, plus some lintels and maybe a couple of dozen nice bluestones from Wales, and we can party!’ Whoever was the person behind Stonehenge was one dickens of a motivator, I’ll tell you that.”

– Bill Bryson, a notable American-British travel writer and author

“English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork.” 

– Maureen Johnson, an American New York Times bestselling author of young adult fiction

“The sun doesn’t live in England; it comes here on holiday when we’re all at work.” 

– Benny Bellamacina, a British songwriter and children’s author

“The land of embarrassment and breakfast.”

– Julian Barnes, an award-winning English author

“Nothing beats snow. Normally we get one day a year – and you have to hope it snows overnight, so you can be snowed in.” 

– Michael McIntyre, an English comedian, writer and TV presenter

“I think the UK is an amazing place and has been extremely good to me. Some of my favourite and most-listened-to bands are from England. I have met many good people there and have been in front of some of the most loyal audiences I have ever encountered.”

– Henry Rollins, an American singer, songwriter, actor, comedian and activist

“England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.” 

– John Burroughs, an American naturalist and essayist from the 1800s

“The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.” 

– Neil Gaiman, an English author perhaps best known for his work on Stardust and Coraline, both of which became hit movies

“I love England – it’s no secret.” 

– Nicolas Cage, an American actor and filmmaker

“The strangest country I ever visited was England; but I visited it at a very early age, and so became a little queer myself. England is extremely subtle; and about the best of it there is something almost secretive; it is an amateur even more than aristocratic in tradition; it is never official.”

– G.K. Chesterton, an English writer, philosopher and literary critic from the late 1800s to early 1900s

“I hope for nothing in this world so ardently as once again to see that paradise called England. I long to embrace again all my old friends there.”

– Cosimo III de’ Medici, the penultimate Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany from the late 1600s to early 1700s

“There’ll always be an England, while there’s a country lane. Wherever there’s a cottage small, beside a field of grain… There’ll always be an England… England shall be free if England means as much to you as England means to me.”

– Vera Lynn, an English singer, songwriter and actress

“If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.”

– W. Somerset Maugham, an English playwright, novelist and short story writer from the late 1800s to mid 1900s

“I think England is the very place for a fluent and fiery writer. The highest hymns of the sun are written in the dark. I like the grey country. A bucket of Greek sun would drown in one colour the crowds of colour I like trying to mix for myself out of grey flat insular mud.”

– Dylan Thomas, a Welsh poet and writer from the early to mid-1900s

“There is no land like England, w here’er the light of day be; There are no hearts like English hearts, s uch hearts of oak as they be; There is no land like England, w here’er the light of day be: There are no men like Englishmen, so  tall and bold as they be! And these will strike for England, And man and maid be free t o foil and spoil the tyrant b eneath the greenwood tree.”

– Alfred Tennyson, a British poet and Poet Laureate of Great Britain from the 1800s

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22 Funny & Oh-So True Quotes About The British Culture

“an englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.”.

– George Mikes, a Hungarian-born British journalist and writer from the 1900s

“We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.”

– Oscar Wilde, an Irish poet and playwright from the late 1800s perhaps best known for ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ and ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’

“The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth.”

– Tony Blair, a British politician and former UK Prime Minister

“In England three are sixty different religions, and only one sauce.”

– Francesco Caracciolo, an Italian admiral and revolutionist from the 1700s

“The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.”

– Quentin Crisp, an English writer and actor from the 1900s

“The maxim of the British people is ‘Business as usual.’” 

– Winston Churchill, a British politician, army officer, writer and former UK Prime Minister during the Second World War

“I think it has something to do with being British. We don’t take ourselves as seriously as other countries do.”

– Joan Collins, an English actress, author and columnist

“The English certainly and fiercely pride themselves in never praising themselves.”  

– Wyndham Lewis, an English writer, painter and critic from the late 1800s to early 1900s

“The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn’t been here twelve hours and already they loved me.” 

“English people don’t like to be told ‘enjoy your meal’. They will enjoy their meal if they feel like enjoying it. It is advisable not to command them such things in case they have other plans with their meal, such as preferring to dislike it.” 

– Angela Kiss, a Hungarian-born writer best known for her book: ‘How to be an Alien in England – A Guide to the English’

[On football] “Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day.” 

– John Bishop, an English comedian, presenter, actor and former professional footballer

“There’s an accent shift, on average, every 25 miles in England.” 

– David Crystal, a British linguist, academic and author

“The readiness of the English to apologise for something they haven’t done is remarkable.” 

– Henry Hitchings, a British author, reviewer and critic 

“England was full of words I’d never heard before – streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.”

“i think in england you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables.”.

– Arsene Wenger, a French football manager and former professional footballer

“The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.” 

– Earle Hitchner, a writer and classical fiction editor

“The Englishman who visits Mount Etna will carry his tea-kettle to the top.” 

– Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher and poet from the 1800s

“It is a mark of self confidence: the English have not spent a great deal of time defining themselves because they haven’t needed to.”

– Jeremy Paxman, a British broadcaster, journalist, actor and TV presenter

“What other country…could possibly have come up with place names like Tooting Bec and Farleigh Wallop, or a game like cricket that goes on for three days and never seems to start?” 

“an englishman’s home is his castle.”.

– An anonymous 17th-century proverb

“You often hear that the English climate has had a profound effect upon the English temperament. I don’t believe it. I believe they were always like that.”

– Will Cuppy, an American humourist and literary critic from the late 1800s to mid-1900s

“Continental people have sex lives; the English have hot-water bottles.”

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Justine is one half of the married couple behind the Wanderers of the World travel blog. She lives in Bristol, UK and has travelled extensively within Europe and beyond since 2013. After her trips, she shares detailed travel itineraries, helpful travel guides and inspiring blog posts about the places she's been to. When she's not travelling overseas, you'll find her joining her husband, Scott on various day trips, weekend getaways and walks within the UK, which she also writes about on Wanderers of the World. Aside from travelling and writing, she also loves reading, crafting and learning about nature.

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305 Famous Quotes About England To Love (That’ll Make You Laugh Too)

If you are looking for the most famous quotes about England, you will find them all in this ultimate list. Whether your reasons to read Britain quotes maybe for some travel inspiration or you want those perfect England captions for Instagram – this exhaustive list has all the great British quotes.

England is known for many things and is one of the most visited countries in Europe. English is not only prominent in the global sense, but many of the traditions and culture have also had their influences all around the world.

The below list consists of the most famous quotes about England weather, travel, customs, traditions, history, and culture. 

And yes, there is nothing better than English humor. And the British love self-deprecating humor, and they are some of the coolest people that love a good laugh and don’t take things seriously. So be ready to laugh through these funny and famous quotes about England too.

FAMOUS QUOTES ABOUT ENGLAND

Below are the most famous quotes about England you might have also come across – a mix of words about cities, history, and weather.

‘Happy is England! I could be content To see no other verdure than its own.’ – John Keats

‘This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.’ – Richard III

‘The biggest difference between England and America is that England has a history, while America has geography.’ – Neil Gaiman

‘ Just close your eyes and think of England.’ – Queen Victoria

‘England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.’ – John Burroughs

‘You can take the boy out of England, but you can’t take England out of the boy. And Ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England.’ – John Mahoney

‘England is always remaking herself, her cliffs eroding, her sandbanks drifting, springs bubbling up in dead ground. They regroup themselves while we sleep, the landscapes through which we move, and even the histories that trail us; the faces of the dead fade into other faces, as a spine of hills into the mist.’ ― Hilary Mantel

‘There is no land like England, wherever the light of day be; There are no hearts like English hearts, such hearts of oak as they be; There is no land like England, wherever the light of day be: There are no men like Englishmen, so tall and bold as they be! And these will strike for England, And man and maid be free to foil and spoil the tyrant beneath the greenwood tree.’ – Alfred Tennyson

‘Close your eyes, and the entire history of England seems to dance in the light of this magic lantern: the thousands of villages, each with its own church spire and unique folk traditions; the poetry and drama; the pies and cakes; the green hills full of sheep; the factories; the Victorian ships and railways; the smoke and smog of urban life in the 1950s.’ ― Robert Winder

‘England was alive, throbbing through all her estuaries, crying for joy through the mouths of all her gulls, and the north wind, with contrary motion, blew stronger against her rising seas.’ ― E.M. Forster

‘In spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.’ ― Queen Elizabeth I

‘Nowhere but in England are the papers so full of fascinating misbehavior. There is always a scandal brewing, there is always a politician, village vicar or bank manager being pilloried, yet at the same time the country breathes a remarkable sense of order.’ ― Geert Mak

‘Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.’ – Charles Churchill

‘I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.’ – Otis Redding

‘A person who is tired of London is not necessarily tired of life; it might be that he just can’t find a parking place.’ – Paul Theroux

‘So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.’ ― Dodie Smith

‘I truly admire the British for their understatement and subtle sarcasm. A good rule is when using sarcasm is, it is best to “put a little English” on it.’ ― C.A.A. Savastano

‘England will still be England, an everlasting animal stretching into the future and the past, and, like all living things, having the power to change out of recognition and yet remain the same.’ ― George Orwell

‘The English landscape at its finest—such as I saw this morning—possesses a quality that the landscapes of other nations, however more superficially dramatic, inevitably fail to possess. It is, I believe, a quality that will mark out the English landscape to any objective observer as the most deeply satisfying in the world, and this quality is probably best summed up by the term ‘greatness.’ – Kazuo Ishiguro

‘I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.’ – WB Yeats

‘Essex is an amazing county, with its own set of rules. It’s a completely different world.’ – Denise Van Outen

‘You either get Norfolk, with its wild roughness and uncultivated oddities, or you don’t. It’s not all soft and lovely. It doesn’t ask to be loved.’ – Stephen Fry

‘To pretend you don’t feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 30 years is a fallacy.’ – Trevor McDonald

ENGLAND TRAVEL QUOTES

From gorgeous medieval towns to magical castles located amidst intriguing mountains and valleys to cities and islets, England offers something for everyone – beckoning hundreds of thousands of travelers every year. London alone receives the most number of tourists, but there is so much more to England beyond its stunning capital city.

Whether you want some England travel inspiration or you are looking for famous quotes about England travel to match with your shots, below are some great captions that are famous quotes about England cities, the unpredictable weather, nostalgic moments of growing up and living in England, including a few funny experiences.

‘There is “no finer county in England than Derbyshire” and “all the celebrated beauties of Chatsworth, Dovedale, and the Peaks.’ – Jane Austen

‘There’ll always be an England, while there’s a country lane. Wherever there’s a cottage small, beside a field of grain. There’ll always be an England. England shall be free if England means as much to you as England means to me.’ – Vera Lynn

‘I live in the English countryside, so I’m surrounded by magpies.’ – Kenneth Branagh

‘Funny thing, but when I first got to England, I felt very much at home there.’ – Clint Walker

‘The strangest country I ever visited was England; but I visited it at a very early age, and so became a little queer myself. England is extremely subtle; and about the best of, it there is something almost secretive; it is an amateur even more than aristocratic in tradition’ – G.K. Chesterton

‘Me and my old man went on a coach trip to Switzerland and Italy once and it was a whole hour further on there. Must be something to do with this Common Market. I don’t hold with the Common Market and nor does Mr. Curtain. England’s good enough for me.’ ― Agatha Christie

‘East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.’ – David Hockney

‘Romney Marsh remains one of the last great wildernesses of south-east England. Flat as a desert, and at times just as daunting, it is an odd, occasionally eerie wetland straddling the coastal borders of Kent and Sussex, rich in birds, local folklore, and solitary medieval churches.’ – David Hewson

‘In England, the rain was thin and cold and made you hunch up inside your coat, walking home from the bus stop. In Jamaica, it was wide and thick and invited you to step into it, and see how wet you could get, and be thrilled that it was warmer than the sea and warmer than your skin; it was abandoned.’ – Sadie Jones

‘We are accustomed in England to chalk in rolling downs, except where bitten into by the sea, but elsewhere it is riven and presents cliffs, and these cliffs are not at all like that of Shakespeare at Dover but overhang, where hard beds alternate with others that are friable.’ – Sabine Baring-Gould

‘On a bike ride through the Surrey Lanes, pedaling in my cotton dress through the hot fields blushing with poppies, freewheeling down a sudden dip into a cool wooded sanctum.’ ― Chris Cleave

‘As we drew nearer I saw a cathedral-like crown on the head of a city. In its white walls, every window glinted in the sun. Lincoln! Of such places is England made. -“No Moon Tonight.’ ― Don Charlwood

‘British aren’t really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.’ – Emma Thompson

‘I remember years ago a guy I knew told me that people going to England find exactly what they go looking for.’ ― Helene Hanff

‘If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties.’ – Virginia Woolf

‘I hope for nothing in this world so ardently as once again to see that paradise called England. I long to embrace again all my old friends there.’ – Cosimo III de’ Medici

‘The extremes of opulence and of want are more remarkable, and more constantly obvious, in Great Britain than in any other place that I ever saw.’ – John Quincy Adams

‘If England was what England seems, An’ not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, and paint, ’Ow quick we’d chuck her! But she ain’t!’ – Rudyard Kipling

‘Think of England as a very large book. The Cotswolds would be an unfussy chapter in the middle somewhere where there is lots of limestones and even more sheep.’ – Susan Meissner

‘So I went to bed, full, happy, and caring nothing for all the hurt of all the Englished Welshmen that ever festered upon a proud land.’ ― Richard Llewellyn

‘“That’s a very murky position,” objected Felix. “So’s the weather. But this is England, we must learn to live with uncertainty.’ ― Gail Carriger

‘It’s a sense of humour. I’ve always felt 100 percent at home in Britain and in London. I’m also fascinated by history. I’ve loved taking weird little sojourns down to Bath or Rye or Chichester, or just wandering around Canterbury.’ – Johnny Depp

‘But what I liked in Aberdeen was what I liked generally in Britain: the bread, the fish, the cheese, the flower gardens, the apples. the clouds, the newspapers, the beer, the woolen cloth, the radio programs, the parks, the Indian restaurants and amateur dramatics, the postal service, the fresh vegetables, the trains, and the modesty and truthfulness of people.’ ― Paul Theroux

‘She grew up in the ordinary paradise of the English countryside. When she was five she walked to school, two miles, across meadows covered with cowslips, buttercups, daisies, vetch, rimmed by hedges full of blossom and then berries, blackthorn, hawthorn, dog-roses, the odd ash tree with its sooty buds.’ ― A.S. Byatt

‘In England, I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York, I have only been madamed once, by the doorman at the Carlyle Hotel.’ ― Anna Quindlen

‘England sinks, the waters rise, but exile is not all about weeping by the rivers. There are also insights in the wilderness.’ ― Cliff James

‘England is so black and white, so plain, like a burger with nothing on it. No salad, nothing. That’s why it’s so real.’ – Skepta

‘Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.’ – Stephen Gardiner

‘I imagined a ball, visitors coming in from all over England, or perhaps a house party. Most of my idea of old houses had come from Downtown Abbey, and I imagined women in delicate Edwardian dresses headed for dinner, ropes of pearls and rubies looped around their thin necks. As if to accommodate my vision, I opened one of the doors to find a peacock-themed room, redolent with the fading colonial era.’ ― Barbara O’Neal

‘I wear jeans and a T-shirt sometimes. I just like clothes – since the first time I can remember, like age ten or eleven; I was just obsessed with music and clothes. Just like a lot of people in England from my generation.’ – Paul Weller

‘If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s.’ – William

‘It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.’ ― P.D. James

‘Thinking about the cold weather in England. Don’t be afraid to rock the David Niven look.’ – Mike D

‘ Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people – there’s not a great downside to it.’ – Tori Amos

‘The daily chocolate left Will in high spirits, so that some days he believed he could wheel with the gulls that fished close to shore. Now that he felt so free, it came to him that the corner of England, which up till now had been his whole universe, was in fact only a scrap of a boundless realm.’ ― Sara Sheridan

‘These marvels were great and comfortable ones, but in old England, there was a greater still. The weather behaved itself. In the spring all the little flowers came out obediently in the meads, and the dew sparkled, and the birds sang; in the summer it was beautifully hot for no less than four months, and, if it did rain just enough for agricultural purposes, they managed to arrange it so that it rained while you were in bed; in the autumn the leaves flamed and rattled before the west winds, tempering their sad adieu with glory; and in the winter, which was confined by statute to two months, the snow lay evenly, three feet thick, but never turned into slush.’ ― T.H. White

‘ An awful lot of people have childhood memories of holidays in Cornwall, and the holidays are old-fashioned and hugely successful. You stick a child and a dog on one of the beaches , and they just light up; they just love it.’ – Martin Clunes

‘I love how excited you Brits get when there’s a hint of sunshine. It’s hilarious, and you have good humor.’ – William

‘On many accounts, Cornwall may be regarded as one of the most, interesting counties of England, whether we regard it for its coast scenery, its products, or its antiquities.’ – Sabine Baring-Gould

‘I’m extremely fortunate that I live in an area that inspires me to train and enjoy it. The same view that I’ve seen a million times never fails to amaze me and the scenery changes with the seasons and the weather. I’m convinced that the characters also make it a very special place.’ – Alistair Brownlee

ENGLAND INSTAGRAM CAPTIONS

Below are some famous quotes about England that are perfect for using as captions for your photos on Instagram or Facebook.

‘England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humor.’ – George Santayana

‘Feelin’ like The Queen.’

‘I love England – it’s no secret.’ – Nicolas Cage

‘I think my soul belongs in England.’

‘As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale.’ – Lily Collins 

‘In London everyone is different, and that means everyone can fit in.’ – Paddington Bear

‘Not done with you yet, England.’

‘England is never in a hurry because she is eternal.’ ― Henryk Sienkiewicz

‘If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.’ – Madeleine M. Kunin

‘I miss a lot about England when I’m working away, even the slate grey skies.’ – Sean Bean

‘Fifteen feet away, the wide River Thames rolled past, dark and deep and mysterious is the sullen-not-quite sunrise .’ ― Amy Butler Greenfield

‘Brits really are the coolest people. Can you help me forge a birth certificate so I can get a British passport?’ – Lady Gaga

‘I love the English lifestyle, it’s not as capitalistic as America. People don’t talk about work and money, they talk about interesting things at dinner.’ – Gwyneth Paltrow 

‘There is nothing so beautiful, lovable and moving as the English countryside.’ ― Stendhal

‘The English countryside is the most staggeringly beautiful place. I can’t spend as much time there as I like, but I like everything about it.’ – – Guy Ritchie

‘Outside of my own home, England is my second home.’ – Chita Rivera

‘Nothing unites the English like war. Nothing divides them like Picasso.’ – Hugh Mills

‘England is the anymore of women, the purgatory of men species lesser of horses.’ – John Florio

‘In England, you’re allowed to have an opinion – as long as it comes out of your mouth.’ – Jamie Oliver

‘Once you asked me what I’m thinking, I lay back and think of England.’ ― Kaiser Chiefs

‘In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.’ – Brian Eno

‘I know what Stone Island means to a lot of people in England and Europe.’ – James Jebbia

‘It is not summer, England doesn’t have summer, it has continuous autumn with a fortnight’s variation here and there.’ ― Natasha Pulley

‘England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.’ – Johprogramss

FAMOUS FUNNY QUOTES ABOUT ENGLAND

From food to cities to weather to people, these famous quotes about England below will make you giggle for sure. Don’t laugh alone, share these with your friends for a good laugh.

‘The sun doesn’t live in England; it comes here on holiday when we’re all at work.’ – Benny Bellamacin

‘What other country could possibly have come up with place names like Tooting Bec and Farleigh Wallop, or a game like Cricket that goes on for three days and never seems to start?’ – Bill Bryson

‘I know this goes without saying, but Stonehenge really was the most incredible accomplishment. It took five hundred men just to pull each sarsen, plus a hundred more to dash around positioning the rollers. Just think about it for a minute. Can you imagine trying to talk six hundred people into helping you drag a fifty-ton stone eighteen miles across the countryside and muscle it into an upright position, and then saying, ‘Right, lads! Another twenty like that, plus some lintels and maybe a couple of dozen nice bluestones from Wales, and we can party!’ Whoever was the person behind Stonehenge was one dickens of a motivator, I’ll tell you that.’ ― Bill Bryson

‘English people don’t like to be told ‘enjoy your meal’. They will enjoy their meal if they feel like enjoying it. It is advisable not to command them such things in case they have other plans with their meal, such as preferring to dislike it.’ – Angela Kiss

‘Your accents, seriously, be grateful for your accents.’ – Billie Eilish

‘Anything said in upper-crust British automatically sounded intelligent.’ – Nancy Kress

‘English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork.’ – Maureen Johnson

‘The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘The English feel schadenfreude even about themselves.’ ― Martin Amis

‘How could this be? I thought. To find the one Customs man unwilling to be bribed? I nearly wept for England.’ ― Amy Wolf

‘No one says the word ‘quirky’ much in England. I guess because people are more naturally eccentric.’ – Alexa Chung

‘As for queueing-up, during the past five or ten years it has become what the psychologists call a conditioned reflex. If you put a dozen English people together, they form themselves into a queue almost instinctively.’ ― George Orwell

‘What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages! God bless my soul, what’s the world coming to!’ – Dorothy Sayers

‘England sometimes feels like 50 million people driving around a motorway forever.’ – Paul Kingsnorth

‘There’s an accent shift, on average, every 25 miles in England.’ – David Crystal

‘We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘If an earthquake were to engulf England tomorrow, the English would manage to meet and dine somewhere among the rubble, just to celebrate the event.’ – Douglas Jerrold

‘Growing up in the English countryside, I feel like I’m in a Jane Austen novel when I walk around.’ – Lily Collins

‘You often hear that the English climate has had a profound effect on the English temperament. I don’t believe it. I believe they were always like that.’ – Will Cuppy

‘The English are not happy unless they are miserable.’ – George Orwell

‘The readiness of the English to apologise for something they haven’t done is remarkable.’ – Henry Hitchings

‘Most of my money remains in England, although my unworthy carcass may not under usual circumstances.’ ― Kellyn Roth

‘England doesn’t have summer, it has continuous autumn with a fortnight’s variation here and there.’ – Natasha Pulley

‘Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is ‘cosy” – Liz Williams

‘Englishmen were rained on too often to come up with anything that imaginative.’ ― Natasha Pulley

‘The British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.’ – George Mikes

‘If one could only teach the English how to talk and the Irish how to listen, society would be quite civilized.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.’ – Thomas Beecham

‘An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.’ – George Mikes

‘A mixture, before the English, of irritation and bafflement, of having this same language, same past, so many same things, and yet not belonging to them anymore. Being worse than rootless, species less.’ ― John Fowles

‘The British are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.’ – Stephen Leacock

‘The Englishman who visits Mount Etna will carry his tea-kettle to the top.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘Nothing beats snow. Normally we get one day a year – and you have to hope it snows overnight, so you can be snowed in.’ – Michael McIntyre

‘Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day.’ – John Bishop

‘A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.’ – George Orwell

‘I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.’ – Clement R. Attlee

‘If you lay a finger on our pirates again, I’m going to kick your ass!’ ― Hidekaz Himaruya

‘We do not regard the English as foreigners. We look on them only as rather mad Norwegians.’ – Halvard Lange

‘British education is probably the best in the world if you can survive it. If you can’t there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.’ – Peter Ustinov

‘Do we have carjacking in England? No, but thanks for asking. We have people who clean your windscreen against your will.’ – Douglas Adams

‘According to them, everyone wants to be English. Being English is the bei te st thing in the world. (Far behind, the second best thing is being God himself).’― Angela Kiss

‘This is so far beyond laughable, it’s almost an English for pedaling .’ – H. Septimius

‘If you sit on an airplane and you tell the English person sitting next to you that you have a bomb in your bag, they would probably be pissed off. Not as much pissed off as if you were talking to them all the time during the journey, but still, quite pissed off.’ ― Angela Kiss

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‘The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.’ – Earle Hitchner

‘You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.’ – Peter Oliver

‘It is a well-known fact that English people never know anything. They only think. The only exception they know and they are sure about in the whole world is Marmite. ‘Love it or hate it.’ There are no other options; there is no space for grey space.’ ― Angela Kiss

‘Never be ashamed of asking for tap water in restaurants. It is only embarrassing and a sign of poorness in Europe. (According to The English, England is not part of Europe. Never has been, never will be. England is England, not part of anything).’ ― Angela Kiss

‘Typical English holidaymakers prefer not to mingle with foreigners since they strongly believe that they already have too many of them in England. The last thing they need during their holiday is to see and meet more aliens. Actually, that is the main reason why they choose a holiday abroad, to escape from aliens who occupy England.’ ― Angela Kiss

‘The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman is this: The one thinks everything right that is French, while the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.’ – William Hazlitt

‘When I am asked why I have left England, I say that I am in “Brexit”. It goes down well.’ ― Cliff James

One of the things that people elsewhere find attractive about the British is their accent – which many feel it to be magical, while some loathe it. These famous quotes about England accent are bound to make you ROFL.

‘England is strictly class-based. What’s surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.’ – Stephen Daldry

‘This is an odd one. You have one country in the world where a word has a deeper meaning, it can really mess with design plans. But we have a difficult situation here so I guess we’ll be looking at putting different sound chips in the dolls heading there Britain.’ ― Todd McFarlane

‘England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.’ – Robert Burton

‘England is like some stricken beast too stupid to know it is dead. Ingloriously foundering in its own waste products, the backlash and bad karma of empire.’ – William S. Burroughs

‘Dating in England is different. First of all, because English people don’t like at all other people knowing them, and second, because English people are romantically impaired.’ ― Angela Kiss

‘Sitting aimlessly in bedrooms- often on the bed itself- is another characteristic feature of the English holidays. The meal was over and it was only twenty-five past seven. ‘The evening stretches before us,’ Viola said gloomily.’ ― Barbara Pym

‘Never, and by this I mean never, criticize the English weather. Especially if you’re an alien. For an English woman, it’s as though you are scolding her firstborn child. For an Englishman, it’s as if you are criticizing the size of his penis. Or even worse: his football team.’ ― Angela Kiss

Below are the some of the hilariously famous quotes England that talk about the fickle weather. Anyone that’s been there will definitely agree on these lighter take on the weather in England.

‘The obituary writers drew their incomplete sketches, touring through his life like travelers to England who do not ever see swans, sheep, bicycles, and blue eyes.’ ― Mark Helprin

‘English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightning, the plague of locusts nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight hockey, for the hockey will win.’ ― Maureen Johnson

‘The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.’ – Douglas William Jerrold

‘An Englishman is never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.’ -Henry James

‘British people would die for their right to drink themselves to death.’ – John Oliver

‘I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England’s.’ ― E.M. Forster

‘All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.’ – Paris Hilton

‘When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, – but never England.’ – George Mikes

More funny famous quotes about England for your laughter.

‘England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.’ – Leon Trotsky

‘When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.’ – Alan Rickman

‘A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.’ ― Rudyard Kipling

‘If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called “Damn It”.’ ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

‘Oxford is very pretty, but I don’t like to be dead.’ ― T.S. Eliot

‘Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.’ ― Oscar Wilde

QUOTES ABOUT BRITISH – FOOD AND TEA

Among the notable things, the country is known for its love for breakfast and tea. These famous quotes about England humoursly cover these subjects.

‘The land of embarrassment and breakfast.’ – Julian Barnes

‘England is the only country in the world where food is more dangerous than sex.’ – Jackie Mason

‘The British definitely like their tea. It’s their solution to everything, all problems, and concerns. If there’s ever a major crisis, a cup of tea will help.’ ― C.R. Stewart

‘The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn’t been here twelve hours and already they loved me.’ – Bill Bryson

‘To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.’ – W. Somerset Maugham

‘In England, three are sixty different religions, and only one sauce.’ – Francesco Caracciolo

‘England was full of words I’d never heard before – streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.’ – Bill Bryson

‘You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can’t say I’m very impressed with the food in America. it’s all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches.’ – Anne Dudley

‘On the Continent, people have good food; in England, people have good table manners.’ – George Mikes

‘I’m in heaven here because every two seconds someone is asking if I want a cup of tea and I always say yes.’  –  Rachel McAdams

‘I grew up running miles of the Norfolk coastline. I’d think nothing of a six-mile run before breakfast. I still run, though not as far and not before muesli.’ – James Dyson

SHORT ENGLAND QUOTES

If you are looking for some famous quotes about England that are not too long or ideal for England Instagram captions for your travel pictures, you can check these below. You will find some of these quotes about England to be funny too.

‘The English nation is never so great as in adversity.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘The maxim of the British people is ‘Business as usual.’ – Winston Churchill

‘The English are proud; the French are vain.’ – Jean Jacques Rousseau

‘And on the sixth day, God created Manchester.’ – Leo Stanley

‘ Italy /Is one thing, England one.’ ― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

‘The British like any kind of music so long as it is loud.’ – Thomas Beecham

‘What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!’ – J. B. Priestley

‘England are the most enthusiastic in the world.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘What two ideas are more inseparable than Beer and Britannia?’ – Sydney Smith

‘The British love permanence more than they love beauty.’ – Hugh Casson

‘Manchester: a city that thinks a table is for dancing on.’ – Mark Radcliffe

‘In England, everything stops for tea.’

‘What fools American can be for England.’ ― Charles Finch

‘The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.’ – Benjamin Haydon

‘It’s celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.’  –  Paloma Faith

‘Living in England was wonderful civil and easy going.’ – Iggy Pop

‘A British villain never loses their sense of humor.’ – Tom Hooper

‘England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.’ – E. M. Forster

‘Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.’ – Pink Floyd

‘The loveliest spot that man hath found.’ – William Wordsworth

‘I think that Brighton, for a crime writer, is almost like a character.’ – Peter James

FAMOUS QUOTES ABOUT ENGLAND CULTURE & HISTORY

The below list includes famous quotes about England culture and history, Great Britain sayings, and the best British quotes as quoted by some British people themselves.

‘If I should die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field, That is forever England.’ – Rupert Brooke

‘I think it has something to do with being British. We don’t take ourselves as seriously as other countries do.’ – Joan Collins

‘British humour is very cruel. It’s my favourite kind of humour; if it isn’t cruel and funny it doesn’t really cut the cake for me.’ – Jason Sellards

‘There cannot be new things in England. There can be old things freshly presented or new things that pretend to be old.’ ― Hilary Mantel

‘How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy.’ -William Makepeace Thackeray

‘In England, if you commit a crime, the police don’t have a gun and you don’t have a gun. If you commit a crime, the police will say “Stop, or I’ll say stop again.’ – Robin Williams 

‘There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.’ – George Bernard Shaw

From famous authors, thinkers, politics, weather to traditions, these famous quotes about England cover many aspects of this unique and multi-dimensional country.

‘England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare, but the Bible made England.’ ― Victor Hugo

‘The English certainly and fiercely pride themselves in never praising themselves.’ – Wyndham Lewis

‘Back at home, people would have been weeping and doing a lot of very public group hugs. At Wexford, some people just aggressively pretended nothing was happening.’ ― Maureen Johnson

‘There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak English and you speak English that you’re bound to understand and like everything that we do. And of course, you don’t.’ – Rowan Atkins

‘Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.’ ― Samuel Johnson

‘I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.’ – Sting

‘It is a mark of self-confidence: the English have not spent a great deal of time defining themselves because they haven’t needed to.’ – Jeremy Paxman

‘I don’t have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me, it is like a mythical place.’ – Kazuo Ishiguro

‘Jasmine, the name of which signifies fragrance, is the emblem of delicacy and elegance. It is reared with difficulty in New England, but at the South, puts forth all its graces.’ – Dorothea Dix

‘Why did she want to stay in England? Because the history she was interested in had happened here, and buried deep beneath her analytical mind was a tumbled heap of Englishness in all its glory, or kings and queens, of Runnymede and Shakespeare’s London, of hansom cabs and Sherlock Holmes and Watson rattling off into the fog with cries of ‘The game’s afoot,’ of civil wars bestrewing the green land with blood, of spinning jennies and spotted pigs and Churchill and his country standing small and alone against the might of Nazi Germany. It was a mystery to her how this benighted land had produced so many great men and women, and ruled a quarter of the world and spread its language and law and democracy across the planet.’ ― Elizabeth Aston

‘I think it’s because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it’s so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding.’ – John Cleese

‘Heaven take thy soul, and England keep my bones!’ – William Shakespeare

‘The British nation is unique in this respect: they are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst. ‘ –  Winston S. Churchil l

‘With more insight into the English character, I poured out a stiff whisky and soda and placed it in front of the gloomy inspector.’ ― Agatha Christie

‘I spent my junior year in Switzerland . On the way back home, I spent some time in England, and I remember going to Hyde Park Corner. And there was a Roman Catholic priest, standing on a soapbox, preaching the Catholic faith and being heckled by a group. And I thought, ‘My goodness, that was admirable.’ – Antonin Scalia

‘In the South of England northerners were regarded then as uncouth, brutish, undisciplined savages.’ ― Alison Weir

‘I remember years ago a guy I knew told me that people going to England find exactly what they go looking for. I said I’d go looking for the England of English Literature, and he nodded and said: ‘It’s there.’

‘Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine, which can rival the repelling effect on the eye, and the depressing influence on the mind, of an English country town in the first stage of its existence, and in the transition state of its prosperity?’ ― Wilkie Collins

Maybe it is, and maybe it isn’t. Looking around the rug one thing’s for sure: it’s here.’ ― Helene Hanff

‘The trouble with the English was that they were English: damn cold fish! – Living underwater most of the year, in days the colour of night!’― Salman Rushdie

England has a rich past spreading across centuries, and its political role in the world, its culture, and traditions have impacted and influenced many. These famous quotes about England tell us many things the outside world does not know – culture shock that travelers will experience when exploring England.

‘The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.’ – Joseph Wood Krutch

‘All we can infer (from the archaeological shards dug up in Berkshire, Devon, and Yorkshire) is that the first Britons, whoever they were and however they came, arrived from elsewhere. The land (Britain) was once utterly uninhibited. Then people came.’ ― Robert Winder

‘In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan , other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.’ – Barney Frank

‘This is England,” he explained. “Tell someone it’s a procedure, and they’ll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources.’ ― Maureen Johnson

‘If you’re famous, you suck, just for being famous. People in England totally get that; Americans don’t.’ – Trey Parker

‘The English were unpleasant in their own very English way. It was as if they lived at the top of the world, and naturally looked down on everyone else; ‘looked down’ in the sense that everyone was clearly beneath them so what else could they do? No spite or guilt, just. ‘Why doesn’t everyone else try harder?’ There was a hint of warmth to their contempt that I found especially deplorable.’ ― Otaro Maijo

‘All around the world, tourist boards advertise trips to Britain with images of the great castles and cathedrals that occupy the commanding heights of our landscape. They seem timeless and typically English. It is rarely mentioned that they are predominately French – proud monuments to the invasion that signals the end of England’s ‘dark age’.’ ― Robert Winder

‘Bexhill is only about fifty miles from Gatwick in that part of England so English it is almost something else, unnameable. The names reek of candyfloss and old battles.Brighton, Hastings.’ ― Sebastian Barry

‘But wasn’t everyone in England supposed to be a detective? Wasn’t every crime, no matter how complex, solved in a timely fashion by either a professional or a hobbyist? That’s the impression you get from British books and TV shows. Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, Hetty Wainthropp, Inspector George Gently: they come from every class and corner of the country. There’s even Edith Pargeter’s Brother Cadfael, a Benedictine monk who solved crimes in twelfth-century Shrewsbury. No surveillance cameras, no fingerprints, not even a telephone, and still he cracked every case that came his way.’ ― David Sedaris

These famous quotes about England are not arranged chronologically, but you can see that it spans across many centuries, even including the recent Brexit to constitutional monarchy to medieval queens and kings.

‘In Poland , the whole saying is, ‘You’ve got one eye to Morocco and the other to the Caucasus.’ That’s the heart of the culture. In England, they say it less romantic: ‘You’ve got a wandering eye.’ The saying means my mainstream in life must be Deep Purple. That’s my main job. Then every now, and I can wander off and have one eye on Morocco.’ – Ian Gillan

‘We, the British have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains , across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.’ – Winston Churchill

‘I think the UK is an amazing place and has been extremely good to me. Some of my favorite and most-listened-to bands are from England. I have met many good people there, and humor in front of some of the most loyal audiences I have ever encountered.’ – Henry Rollins

‘Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it’s a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don’t know why.’ – Adele

‘We thought it was nice of you to let him have a go, because, in England, he wouldn’t be trusted with a pair of scissors.’ ― Russell Brand

‘It is a country where they know how to build houses. A man’s wish to be snug in his own they had used, diamond just for him and his per cent long to have a garden which he cultivates himself, is considered quite reasonable, and so the cities are made up of just such little houses.’ ― Natalia Ginzburg

‘At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England, and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from ‘the bush’ could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.’ – Elizabeth Kenny

‘Aliens usually missed the point about England by investing its landscape with the passions of its great literature and it had so seldom been seen plainly, without literary footnotes.’ ― Paul Theroux

‘The language itself, whether you speak it or not, whether you love it or hate it, is like some bewitchment or seduction from the past, drifting across the country down the centuries, subtly affecting the nation’s sensibilities even when its meaning is forgotten.’ -Jan Morris

‘I think England is the very place for a fluent and fiery writer. The highest hymns of the sun are written in the dark. I like the grey country. A bucket of Greek sun would drown in one colour the crowds of colour. I like trying to mix for myself out of grey flat insular mud.’ – Dylan

‘In England, we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. ‘Oy, Ginger!’ – Damian Lewis

‘England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.’ – John Burroughs

‘The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression around the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.’ – Quentin Crisp

‘British people don’t express themselves when they are in pain. They don’t think it’s elegant.’ – Monica Bellucci

‘If you had to find a period in history that would equate to what the Internet has presented us with now, it would be Elizabethan England. It was a world in flux.’ – Rhys Ifans

‘The British have always been madly overambitious, and from one angle it can seem like bravery, but from another, it looks suspiciously like a lack of foresight.’ – Ben Aaronovitch

‘The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.’ – Winston Churchill

‘If it were not for collectors England would be full, so to speak, of rare birds and wonderful butterflies, strange flowers and a thousand interesting things. But happily, the collector prevents all that, either killing with his own hands or, by buying extravagantly, procuring people of the lower classes to kill such eccentricities as appear.’

‘A case could be made, in fact, that the English were the first victims of the British empire: without their conquest, that empire could not have been built.’ ― Paul Kingsnorth

‘Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-Waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it and saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.’ – Boris Johnson

‘Eccentricity, in fact, is immorality, think over it again if you do not think so now just as eccentricity in one’s way of thinking is madness (I defy you to find another definition that will fit all the cases of either); and if a species is rare it follows that it is not Fitted to Survive. The collector is after all merely like the foot soldier in the days of heavy armor-he leaves the combatants alone and cuts the throats of those who are overthrown. So one may go through England from end to end in the summertime and see only eight or ten commonplace wildflowers, and the commoner butterflies, and a dozen or so common birds, and never be offended by any breach of the monotony.’ ― H.G. Wells

‘The route, that dreary review of fashionable fineries, that parade of well-dressed self-infatuations, is one of those English inventions currently mechanizing the other nations. England seems determined to see the entire world bored just as she is, and just as bored as she.’― Honoré de Balzac

‘He spits out an epithet so nasty I think it’s only legal in England. And then only when your favourite football club loses.’ ― Tera Lynn Childs

‘If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.’ – H. P. Lovecraft

‘England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare’s much-quoted message, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr. Goebbels. More than either it resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black sheep in it but with all its cupboards bursting with skeletons. It has rich relations who have to be kowtowed to and poor relations who are horribly sat upon, and there is a deep conspiracy of silence about the source of the family income. It is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts. Still, it is a family. It has its private language and its common memories, and at the approach of an enemy, it closes its ranks. A family with the wrong members in control – that, perhaps is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.’ ― George Orwell

‘First of all, you must never speak of anything by its name in that country. So, if you see a tree on a mountain, it will be better to say ‘Look at the green on the high’; for that’s how they talk in that country. And whatever you do, you must find a false reason for doing it in that country. If you rob a man, you must say it is to help and protect him: that’s the ethics of that country. And everything of value has no value at all in that country. You must be perfectly commonplace if you want to be a genius in that country. And everything you like you must pretend not to like, and anything that is there you must pretend is not there in that country. And you must always say that you are sacrificing yourself in the cause of religion, and morality, and humanity, and liberty, and progress when you want to cheat your neighbor in that country. Good heavens!” cried Iliel, ‘are we going to England.’ ― Aleister Crowley

‘An English wood is like a good many other things in life very promising at a distance, but a hollow mockery when you get within. You see daylight on both sides, and the sun freckles the very bracken. Our woods need the night to make them seem what they ought to be what they once were, before our ancestors’ descendants demanded so much more money, in these so much more various days.’ ― Gertrude Atherton

‘It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country’s regard for law is to notice what arms the officers of the law are carrying: in England, it is little batons, in France swords, in many countries revolvers, and in Russia, the police used to have artillery.’ ― Lord Dunsany

‘The importance of the pie – once the ‘meat and potatoes’ of the English – began to slip with the increased cultivation of the actual potato in the nineteenth century. As the nineteenth became the twentieth century, social changes pushed the pie further into decline. The ‘real pies’ had their last glorious days in the Engreath manor houses of the Edwardian era, before the domestic classes left to fight the First World War.’ ― Janet Clarkson

FAMOUS QUOTES ABOUT ENGLAND – A FEW MORE

A few more famous quotes about England for you. Keep reading.

‘Even when we are talking about England’s past, we are talking about its natural geography — its shape, location, weather, soil, and raw materials. These set in motion the forces, that shaped its history.’ 3― Robert Winder

‘These friends – and he laid his hand on some of the books – have been good friends to me, and for some years past, ever since I had the idea of going to London, have given me many, many hours of pleasure. Through them, I have come to know your great England and to know her is to love, and I long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of humanity, to share its life, its change, its death, and all that makes it what it is.’ ― Bram Stoker

‘I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an English public school. Here at least one cannot say that English ‘education’ fails to do its job. You forget your Latin and Greek within a few months of leaving school — I studied Greek for eight or ten years, and now, at thirty-three, I cannot even repeat the Greek alphabet — but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the bindweed it is, sticks by you till your grave.’ ― George Orwell

‘The way she told it, the English counties are littered with aging spinsters who accidentally displayed a spark of intelligence at a debutante dance and were banished forever from civilized society.’ ― Michelle Cooper

England’s royal family is one of the most popular in the world – a long line of history and traditions that have drawn the curiosity of people around the globe. These famous quotes about England talk about this family.

‘This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happy lands, –This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.’ – William Shakespeare

‘There was a certain pathos. The wood still had some of the mystery of wild, old England; but Sir Geoffrey’s cuttings during the war had gen it a blow. How still the trees were, with their crinkly, innumerable twigs against the sky, and their grey, obstinate trunks rising from the brown bracken! How safely the birds flitted among them! And once they had been diamond archers, and monks percent long on asses. The place remembered, still remembered.’ ― Lawrence

‘The local natives were particularly curious to know why the English required such huge quantities of pepper and there was much scratching of heads until it was finally agreed that English houses were so cold that the walls were plastered with crushed pepper in order to produce heat.’ ― Giles Milton

‘I’m William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them. Scotland is free!’ – William Wallace

While these famous quotes about England may be talking about the culture or cities or traditions, but you cannot miss the humour all the while.

‘It could take a while — perhaps centuries. But the landscape would drip into their souls eventually. The English did not become Norman; the Normans became English.’ ― Robert Winder

‘The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth.’ – Tony Blair

‘The British who rarely start a fight, but always know how to finish it have nothing to be ashamed of.’ – Tony Parsons

‘The days draw out, the weather gets warmer, and it’s what we call summer, with a bitter laugh when we’ve said it.’ ― Stan Barstow

‘It was a sweet view-sweet to the eye and the mind. English verdure, English culture, English comfort, seen under a sun bright, without being oppressive.’ ― Jane Austen

‘The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.’ – James Mansfield

This list of famous quotes about England is incomplete without a few words from the leaders of the country.

‘My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a country, to leave it to the Americans to make money from a great British invention. I appeal to the children of this country and to their Potter-fiend parents to write to Warner Bros and Universal, and perhaps, even, to the great J K herself. Bring Harry home to Britain—and if you want a site with less rainfall than Rome, with excellent public transport, and strong connections to Harry Potter, I have just the place.’ ― Boris Johnson

‘It was English, and the wych-elm that she saw from the window was an English tree. No report had prepared her for its peculiar glory. It was neither warrior, nor lover, nor god; in none of these roles do the English excel. It was a comrade, bending over the house, strength, and adventure in its roots, but in its utmost fingers tenderness, and the girth, that a dozen men could not have spanned, became, in the end, evanescent, till pale bud clusters seemed to float in the air.’ ― E.M. Forster

‘I took her outside on to a little roof terrace that looked like it never got the sun at any time of the day r year, but there were a picnic table and a grill out there anyway. Those little grills are everywhere in England, right? To me they’ve come to represent the triumph of hope over circumstance, triumphs all you can do is peer at them out the window through the pissing rain.’ ― Nick Hornby

‘Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. Especially seeing England presents thee with so many observables.’ ― W.G. Hoskins

‘I knew that Sundays in England aren’t just ordinary dull Sundays, the same the world over, which demand that one simply tiptoe through without disturbing them or paying them the least attention, they are faster and slower and more burdensome than anywhere else I know.’ ― Javier Marias

‘He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: “What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?” He sounded faintly sad. Perhaps he finds beauty saddening — I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked my father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty’s evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die. Then he said I was probably too young to understand him, but I understood perfectly.’

ENGLAND PUNS

After a massive list of the most famous quotes about England, check out these funny puns about England that are perfect if you are looking for some sassy Captions for England.

England can’t be Thamed.

Notting Hill make you feel as wonderful as a trip to England.

Thanks for pudding up with me.

‘England is teariffic.’

Why did we get a Newcastle? What happened to the old one?

Having a romantic Bath.

Cambridge the gap between us.

‘The sun doesn’t live in England.’

Are you sick Orwell?

I can’t Hardy wait.

The Windsor not so bad here. 

You’re a Blake slate.

My favorite movie is Jurassic Coast.

Kent you come here?

I’d love a trip to England, but I can’t Oxford it.

It’s a small Cotswold after all.

You really Brighton up my day.

Where have you Ben all my life?

I’ll follow your Leeds

Could your Corby parked on a different street?

‘An Englishman’s home is his castle.’ – English Proverb 

You can Leeds a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.

Get some Cornwall you can.

 I don’t know where I want to go, Norwich way I want to get there. 

 What a wild Hyde this trip has been.

That’s it about this comprehensive list of the most famous quotes about England culture, travel, history, food, renowned people, and even weather.

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95 most inspirational travel quotes ever penned

Our favourite inspirational travel quotes have encouraged us to travel with abandon over the years. Perhaps they will do the same for you…

For us, there is no such thing as luxury travel; travel is, by default, a luxury. It is a privilege provided by the country of our birth, a privilege that many are not as fortunate to enjoy.

Sometimes, we have to pinch ourselves at just how ridiculous our lives have become: an ex-teacher and jobbing writer travelling the world for a living. It is absurd, it is astonishing, it is luxury.

When I first went travelling at 21 years old, my father gave me this quote scrawled on a piece of card.

It infused me with wanderlust. It encouraged me to get out of my comfort zone, make the most of my time, see the world and enjoy the freedom that comes with being on the road. It remains one of the most inspirational travel quotes I’ve read (even if Twain did not actually say it).

Today, 20 years and almost 100 countries later, it’s still in my wallet. Despite its tattered and dishevelled appearance, it’s every bit as important to me now as it was then.

With that in mind, we’ve collated our most beloved inspirational travel quotes to encourage readers to “explore, dream and discover” for themselves.

inspirational travel quotes

1. “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson

2. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine

3. “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho

4. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake

5. “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen

6. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

7. “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.” – Paul Brandt

8. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

9. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

10. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

11. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller Anderson

12. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson

13. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

14. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

15. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner

16. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships were built for.” – John A. Shedd

17. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

18. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien

19. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

20. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli

21. “Once a year, go somewhere you’ve never been before.” – The Dalai Lama

22. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

23. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon

24. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

25. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux

26. “A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi

27. “Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” – Aldous Huxley

28. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

29. “All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson

30. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France

31. “I can’t control the wind but I can adjust the sail.” – Ricky Skaggs

32. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” – Hilaire Belloc

33. “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes

34. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener

35. “The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

36. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

37. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou

38. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber

39. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

40. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

41. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese

42. “Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” ― Michael Palin

43. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

44. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

45. “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman

46. “There are far, far better things ahead than we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis

47. “Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” – Freya Stark

48. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

49. “All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” – Paul Fussell

50. “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain

51. “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G.K. Chesterton

52. “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” – Elizabeth Drew

53. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

54. “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” – Ray Bradbury

55. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

56. “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T. S. Eliot

57. “Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.” – Robert Orben

58. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

59. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” – Oscar Wilde

60. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

61. “If an ass goes travelling, he’ll not come home a horse.” – Thomas Fuller

62. “Travelling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – Peter Hoeg

63. “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

64. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

65. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine from the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

66. “I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

67. “I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” – George Bernard Shaw

68. “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Carlo Goldoni

69. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide

70 “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

71. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

72. “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard

73. “The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton

74. “A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

75. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery

76. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac

77. “The more I travelled the more I realised that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

78. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey

78. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” – Lawrence Block

80. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle – or Si’ahl

81. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

82. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

83. “We live in a world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

84. “The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself” – Wallace Stevens

85. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

86. “Paris is always a good idea.” – Julia Ormond (although it is often wrongly attributed to Audrey Hepburn)

87. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip.” – Babs Hoffman

88. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain

89. “Jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty

90. “It is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.” – Sir Ernest Shackleton

91. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” –  Jack Kerouac

92. “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain

93. “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.” – Oscar Wilde

94. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M Goodman

95. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain (or possibly H Jackson Brown Jr )

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From world class museums and galleries, to regal palaces, beautiful parks and renowned theatres, it’s no wonder London is one of the world’s most popular cities.

So many songs, poems and books, feature quotes about London, so to save you time, I’ve collated the Most Famous London Quotes , that will have you itching to visit England’s capital city.

Famous Sayings about London

• “The man who can dominate a London dinner table can dominate the world.”  – Oscar Wilde
• “You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”  – Samuel Johnson
• “There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear — the city of London and the South Seas.”  – Herman Melville
• “I’ve been walking about London for the last 30 years, and I find something fresh in it every day.”– Walter Besant

Instagram Captions for London Trip

• “London always reminds me of a brain. It is similarly convoluted and circuitous. A lot of cities, especially American ones like New York and Chicago , are laid out in straight lines. Like the circuits on computer chips, there are a lot of right angles in cities like this. But London is a glorious mess.” – James Geary
• “It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.”- Henry James
• “The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.” – Stephen Fry
• “London goes beyond any boundary or convention. It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement ever expressed. It is illimitable. It is Infinite London.”– Peter Ackroyd

Famous Quotes about London and Londoners

• “In London, everyone is different, and that means anyone can fit in.” – Paddington Bear
• “It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed.”  – George VI
• “One of the the things I most liked about the city – apart from all its obvious attractions, the theatre, the galleries, the exhilarating walks by the river – was that so few people ever asked you personal questions.”– Julia Gregson
• “In this city 300 languages are spoken and the people that speak them live side by side in harmony. This city typifies what I believe is the future of the human race and a future where we grow together and we share and we learn from each other.” – Ken Livingstone

Funny Quotes about London

• “London is a cluster of communities, great and small, famous and unsung; a city of contrasts, a congregation of diversity.” – Roy Porter
• “Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what society should be.” – Oscar Wilde
• “My Dad says that being a Londoner has nothing to do with where you’re born. He says that there are people who get off a jumbo jet at Heathrow, go through immigration waving any kind of passport, hop on the tube and by the time the train’s pulled into Piccadilly Circus they’ve become a Londoner.”– Ben Aaronovitch
• “The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Short Quotes from London

• “London is a roost for every bird.” – Benjamin Disraeli
• “By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.”– Samuel Johnson
• “Fragmentarily the City is nothing, but collectively it is gigantic…” – Charlotte Riddell
• “Keep calm and go to London.”  – Unknown
• “ New York has a great energy, but London is better.”– Jaime Winstone
• “London is a modern Babylon.”  – Benjamin Disraeli 

London Phrases

• “I think London’s hot because it’s so full of eccentrics.”  – Rachel Weisz
• “I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me.”  -Charlotte Brontë
• “The parks be the lungs of London.”– Charles Dickens
• “There’s nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.”– Vivienne Westwood
• “To walk alone in London is the greatest rest.”– Virginia Woolf
• “London’s greatest strength is our diversity.”– Sadiq Khan
• “If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.”  – Peter Shaffer

Funny London Quotes for Instagram

• “A person who is tired of London is not necessarily tired of life; it might be that he just can’t find a parking place.”– Paul Theroux
• “Nothing is certain in London but expense.”  – William Shenstone
• “A bad day in London is still better than a good day anywhere else.”  – Unknown
• “In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.”– John Osborne
• “London is a bad habit one hates to lose.”– William Sansom
• “Yes, London. You know, fish, chips, cup o tea, bad food, worse weather, Mary-f*cking-Poppins. London!”  – Dennis Farina

London Travel Quotes

• “London opens to you like a novel itself… It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, doors and passages. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand.”– Anna Quindlen
• “When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything in rather than just rushing around to all of the major tourist haunts.”– Richard Branson
• “The vibe of London as a city is captivating. It’s both fast-paced and rushed but still has the calmness that would attract any big-city person.”– Ali Fazal
• “Aesthetically, London is just beautiful; it’s a gorgeous city. The architecture, monuments, the parks, the small streets – it’s an incredible place to be” – Sara Bareilles
• “I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.” – V. S. Naipaul

Top London Quote

• “I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air — or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.”  – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• “The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?”– Virginia Woolf
• “I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.” – Ben Okri
• “I long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of humanity, to share its life, its change, and all that makes it what it is.” – Dracula
• “It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.” – Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

London Poems and Songs

• “Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner / That I love London so / Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner / That I think of her wherever I go / I get a funny feeling inside of me / Just walking up and down / Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner / That I love London town.”  -Hubert Gregg
• “London, London, London town / You can toughen up or get thrown around.”  – Kano
• “You are now / In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow / At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore / Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more / Yet in its depth what treasures!”  – P. B. Shelley
• “There’s a hole in the world / Like a great black pit / And the vermin of the world / Inhabit it / And it goes by the name of London.” – Stephen Sondheim 
• “A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, / Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye / Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping / In sight, then lost amidst the forestry / Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping / On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; / A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown / On a fool’s head – and there is London Town.”  – Lord Byron

Best London Sayings

• “If you’re curious, London’s an amazing place.” –  David Bailey
• “The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.” – Jane Austen
• “I don’t know what London’s coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.” – Noel Coward
• “I travel continuously, and I see many cities, but there is nowhere like London.” –  Norman Foster
• “I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me.” –  Charlotte Bronte

London Instagram Captions

• “This melancholy London – I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.” – William Butler Yeats 
• “I have often amused myself with thinking how different a place London is to different people.” – James Boswell
• “As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.” –  Goldwin Smith
• “I long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of humanity, to share its life, its change, it’s death, and all that makes it what it is.” –  Bram Stoker, Dracula
• “The interesting thing about London is that there are always stylish surprises around every corner.” –  Natalie Massenet

London Puns and London Captions for Instagram

These puns about London make the best Instagram captions for your awesome London posts:

• This little piggy went to  Camden   Market .
• I can’t be Thamed.
• London  fundon
• The traffic in London is like a Piccadilly Circus
• Happy to leave the Tower of London with my head still on!
• Having the best  Thames  in London

London One-Liners about Scones

• Sticks and scones may break my bones…
• Never met a scone I didn’t like
• In London you should leave no scone unturned
• Call me on my  scone
• I’m taking life one  scone  at a time in London

Tower Bridge Quotes and London Bridge Quotes

• Let’s cross that  Tower Bridge  when we get to it
• Keep Calm and Cross the London Bridge
• Bridges don’t take sides.
• Let’s cross that London Bridge when we come to it.
• Build bridges not walls.

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Funny London Captions about Tea

• London is my cup of tea
• Making tea isn’t hard, but waiting for the kettle to boil sure is tea-dious.
• 50 Shades of Earl Grey
• Oolong live the queen!
• London is quali-tea
• What a  brew – tea -ful day in London
• Let’s get this par- tea started in London
• Nice tea meet you in London!
• London is totally tea -riffic

London Weather Quotes

• In winter, London makes a great  frost  impression.
• I tried to grab a pic of London fog, but I  mist .
• The cold here is  snow  joke.
• Trying to make our way around London, but we don’t have the  foggiest  idea where we are!
• I’m about to enjoy the  showers  of London
• The fog was so thick we  mist  our tour.
• “The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.” –  Arthur Symons

Royal Puns about London

• Visiting Buckingham Palace, but I’m having a bad  heir  day.
• Feeling like a Queen in London
• Home is where the palace is

Big Ben Quotes

• Where have you  Ben  all my life?
• Enjoying  hour  day at Big Ben.
• Oops, I did it  Big Ben.
• Relationship status: crushing on Big Ben
• “How can you ever be late for anything in London? They have a huge clock right in the middle of the town.” –  Jimmy Kimmel

London Eye Quotes

• Eye came. Eye saw. Eye conquered.
• Oh,  Eye  see you.
• Eye  spy.
• “The best thing about the London Eye is the journey. It’s not like the Eiffel tower, where you get in a dark lift and come out on to a platform at the top. The trip round is as important as the view.” – Julia Barfield

That’s 100+ Quotes on London to Inspire You

I hope you’ve managed to find the perfect London quote.

I’d love to know which one is your favourite, and if I’ve missed any phrases about London then please let me know in the comments below!

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130+ Beautiful Travel Quotes About London, England

It’s not for nothing that there are so many quotes about London. It’s one of the most beautiful cities in England and one of the most visited cities in the world.

It has something to offer to everyone, and it’s the kind of place you can explore for years and still find new things to do and see, so it’s not surprising that it is a huge source of inspiration.

If you need some of its magic, read these wanderlust-fueling sayings about London that will surely make your travel feet itch.

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Short Travel Quotes About London

“There’s nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.” –  Vivienne Westwood

“London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.” –  Ralph Waldo Emerson

“By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.” –  Samuel Johnson

“In London everyone is different, and that means anyone can fit in.” –  Paddington Bear

“London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.” –  Ernest Hemingway

“New York has a great energy, but London is better.” –  Jaime Winstone

“If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.” –  Peter Shaffer

“London is a bad habit one hates to lose.” –  William Sansom

“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.” –  Samuel Johnson

“I do find London exciting. Much as I hate to agree with that tedious old git Samuel Johnson, and despite the pompous imbecility of his famous remark about when a man is tired of London he is tired of life…I can’t dispute it.” –  Bill Bryson

“London is a roost for every bird.” –  Benjamin Disraeli

“London is on the whole the most possible form of life.” –  Henry James

“I’ve been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.” –  Walter Besant

“When I think about my ideal free day, it usually involves going into London and sitting in a nice coffeehouse with cake and coffee.” –  Jonathan Stroud

“The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon . . . Everywhere the shells sparkled like Christmas baubles.” –  Evelyn Waugh

“If you’re curious, London’s an amazing place.” –  David Bailey

“History, as they say, is alive and well and living in London.” –  Helene Hanff

“Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.” –  Thomas Moore

“The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?” –  Virginia Woolf

“Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude…its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.” –  Claude Monet

“London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.” –   Laura Fraser

“London is like no other city I know in its ability to become beautiful. You can suddenly turn a corner and there are odd moments – of light, of weather.” –  Graham Swift

“Loads of tourists must be attracted by the fact that you could spend a week in London doing nothing but visit superb museums and galleries, free.” –  Simon Hoggart

“A bad day in London is still better than a good day anywhere else.” –  Unknown

“London is a dizzying delight, full of pomp and pedigree, a place where high culture and cutting-edge trends feed off one another.” –   Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Donald Olson & Darwin Porter

“London is a world by itself. We daily discover in it more new countries, and surprising singularities, than in all the universe besides.” –  Thomas Brown

“London; a nation, not a city.” –  Benjamin Disraeli

“I love being in London because it means I am breathing the same air as the Queen.” –  Melissa George

“London is one of the most exciting cities in the world with so many fantastic pubs and restaurants. I would urge people to get out there and see as much as possible.” –  Richard Branson

“London is one of the most exciting cities in the world, with a melting pot of cultures and diversity.” –  Orlando Bloom

“There are too many things to count that I like about London.” –  Andrew Wyatt

“London, how could one ever be tired of it?” –  Margaret Drabble

“I didn’t really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.” –  Feist

“London, with its monotonous and melancholy houses, seems like an inharmonious patchwork, as if pieced together without design. Yet it is lovable in its sprawling confusion.” –  Joseph Fort Newton

“I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.” –  William Hazlitt

“As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.” –  Goldwin Smith

“I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.” –  Ben Okri

“London is a city that has reinvented itself upon the remains of the past.” –  Leo Hollis

“The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven.” –  Nicholas Monsarrat

“It is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.” –  Orlando Bloom

“In London November isn’t a month, it’s a state of mind.” –  Antal Szerb

“In other countries they speak of nobility and courtesy, in London they practice it.” –  Frances Xavier Cabrini

“London is my most compelling lover; I am hooked on it, for all its mistreatment. Expensive and demanding and, if you know where to look, beautiful.” –  Alice Vincent

“There’s someone for everyone, here in London, they always say.” –  Philip Hensher

“London is a cluster of communities, great and small, famous and unsung; a city of contrasts, a congregation of diversity.” –  Roy Porter

“London is a huge shop, with a hotel on the upper storeys.” –  George Gissing

“It was a rule of London life that anybody could be anybody” –  John Lanchester

“There’s only one London. That’s it. We are what we are.” –  Craig Taylor

“The best thing about the Eye is the journey. It’s not like the Eiffel tower, where you get in a dark lift and come out on to a platform at the top. The trip round is as important as the view.” –  Julia Barfield

“To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.” –  Edward Gibbon

“And there is London! England’s heart and soul. By the proud flowing of her famous Thames, She circulates through countless lands and isles Her greatness; gloriously she rules, At once the awe and sceptre of the world.” –  Robert Montgomery

“To walk alone in London is the greatest rest.” –  Virginia Woolf

“London is a modern Babylon.” –  Benjamin Disraeli

“London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases… that was very interesting.” –  Ruth Rendell

“The Thames is liquid history.” –  John Burns

“To the outsider, London is a sightseer’s theme park, a rich assembly of landmarks and historic buildings, where blue plaques chronicle the passing of time right back to the Middle Ages.” –  Unknown

“You don’t live in London. You play London – to win. That’s why we’re all here. It is a city full of contestants, each chasing one of a million possible prizes: wealth, love, fame. Inspiration.” –  Caitlin Moran

“London is the most multicultural, mixed-race place on Earth.” –  JJ Feild

“London’s like a forest … we shall be lost in it.” –  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

“What I love about London is the energy and the creativity. Culturally, it is such a happening city, from the cuisine to the fashion.” –  Monika Chiang

“Londoners slag off London because, deep down, we know we are living in the greatest city in the world.” –  David Mitchell

“It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed.” –  George VI

“From the top of the bus she could see the vast bowl of London spreading out to the horizon: splendid shops with mannequins in the window, interesting people and already a much bigger world.” –  Julia Gregson

“Italy and London are the only places where I don’t feel to exist on sufferance.” –  E.M. Forster

“I travel continuously, and I see many cities, but there is nowhere like London.” –  Norman Foster

“London and Fog! When these two come together, it is time to be a writer!” –  Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The London streets are paths of loveliness; the very omnibuses look like colored archangels, their laps filled full of little trustful souls.” –  Evelyn Underhill

“The funny thing is, London is an incredibly interesting city. It’s very sexy and it’s very different, with the Thames winding through it like a snake.” –  Mel Smith

“Yet, like the sea and the gallows, London refuses nobody.” –  Peter Ackroyd

“Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it’s the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.” –  Hans-Ulrich Obrist

“The vibe of London as a city is captivating. It’s both fast-paced and extremely rushed but still has the calmness that would attract any big-city person.” –  Ali Fazal

“It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.” –  Henry James

“There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubble in amber.” –  Neil Gaiman

“And yet London is a solid city, in spite of the broken images it evokes in the mind of a wanderer like myself. There is a grandeur there, an impersonal power of endurance that is somehow comforting beneath the rot.” –  James Wright

“There is always a romance that we leave behind in London, and always London enlocks that flower for us, and keeps it fresh, so that when we come back we have our romance again.” –  Stella Benson

“All my life I’ve wanted to see London. […] I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home before they die.” –  Helene Hanff

“This beautiful city is so vast it holds the story of every soul who’s ever walked along the banks of the Thames.” –  Susannah Conway

“London is one of the most fascinating, historic, amazing cities in the world!” –  Sophie Kinsella

“Nothing falls like London Rain. Nothing heals me like you do.” –  Heather Nova

“The interesting thing about London is that there are always stylish surprises around every corner.” –  Natalie Massenet

“I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me.” –  Charlotte Brontë

“Big Ben… hearing the chimes makes me feel at home.” –  Jane Birkin

“London isn’t a stodgy place. Trend-setting London is to the United Kingdom what New York City is to the United States: the spot where everything happens first (or ultimately ends up).” –  Donald Olson

“I love the fact you can walk down a street in London and get lost, even though you’ve lived here 20 years.” –  Stephen Moyer

“I miss that London thing of walking outside and bumping into mates and going, ‘Do you want to get a pint?'” –  Lena Headey

“Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.” –  Ernie Pyle

“London opens to you like a novel itself. […] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand.” –  Anna Quindlen

“Tea at the Ritz is the last delicious morsel of Edwardian London. The light is kind, the cakes are frivolous and the tempo is calm, confident and leisurely.” –  Helen Simpson

“The Ritz in London has an old-fashioned charm, with waiters wearing tails and white gloves. The dining room is exquisite, with immaculate service and ornate details.” –  Anton du Beke

“London goes beyond any boundary or convention. It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement ever expressed. It is illimitable. It is Infinite London.” –  Peter Ackroyd

“If the parks be “the lungs of London” we wonder what Greenwich Fair is – a periodical breaking out, we suppose – a sort of spring rash.” –  Charles Dickens

“When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything in rather than just rushing around to all of the major tourist haunts.” –  Richard Branson

“The Thames is no ordinary waterway, it is the golden thread of our nation’s history.” –  Winston Churchill

“Aesthetically, London is just beautiful; it’s a gorgeous city. The architecture, monuments, the parks, the small streets – it’s an incredible place to be.” –  Sara Bareilles

“I long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of humanity, to share its life, its change, its death, and all that makes it what it is.” –  Bram Stoker

“The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.” –  Arthur Symons

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“Walking along the road after nightfall, I thought all at once of London streets, and, by a freak of mind, wished I were there. I saw the shining of shop-fronts, the yellow glistening of a wet pavement, the hurrying people, the cabs, the omnibuses–and I wished I were amid it all.” –  George Gissing

“There’s something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don’t get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I’d most like to live, I would always choose London.” –  Charlie Cox

“Dickens’ London was a place of the mind, but it was also a real place. Much of what we take today to be the marvellous imaginings of a visionary novelist turn out on inspection to be the reportage of a great observer.” –  Judith Flanders

“London is like a dream come true. As I ramble through it I am haunted by the curious feeling of something half-forgotten, but still dimly remembered, like a reminiscence of some previous state of existence. It is at once familiar and strange.” –  Joseph Fort Newton

“It is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a good eye and indefatigable feet, will find in her travels all the Londons she has ever met in the pages of books, one atop the other, like the strata of the Earth.” –  Anna Quindlen

“London was so rich, and also so green, and somehow so detailed: full of stuff that had been made, and bought, and placed, and groomed, and shaped, and washed clean, and put on display as if the whole city was for sale.” –  John Lanchester

“Behind everything in London is something else, and, behind that, is something else still; and so on through the centuries, so that London as we see her is only the latest manifestation of other Londons, and to love her is to plunge into ancestor-worship.” –  H.V. Morton

“The appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer’s morning, is most striking even to the few whose unfortunate pursuits of pleasure, or scarcely less unfortunate pursuits of business, cause them to be well acquainted with the scene. There is an air of cold, solitary desolation about the noiseless streets which we are accustomed to see thronged at other times by a busy, eager crowd, and over the quiet, closely-shut buildings, which throughout the day are swarming with life and bustle, that is very impressive.” –  Charles Dickens

“Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them substance, given them life. And so we readers walk, and dream, and imagine, in the city where imagination found its great home.” –  Anna Quindlen

“Maybe it’s because I’m a Londone r That I love London so Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner That I think of her wherever I go I get a funny feeling inside of me Just walking up and down Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner That I love London so.” –  Hubert Gregg

“London – beautiful, immortal London – has never been a ‘city’ in the simplest sense of the word. It was, and is, a living, breathing thing, a stone leviathan that harbours secrets underneath its scales. It guards them covetously, hiding them deep within its body; only the mad or the worthy can find them.” –  Samantha Shannon

“London is not a city, London is a person. Tower Bridge talks to you; National Gallery reads a poem for you; Hyde Park dances with you; Palace of Westminster plays the piano; Big Ben and St Paul’s Cathedral sing an opera! London is not a city; it is a talented artist who is ready to contact with you directly!” –  Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.” –  Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What an amazing thing is the coming of spring to London. The very pavements seem ready to crack and lift under the denied earth; in the air is a consciousness of life which tells you that if traffic stopped for a fortnight grass would grow again in Piccadilly and corn would spring in pavement cracks where a horse had spilt his ‘feed’. And the squares of London, so dingy and black since the first October gale, fill week by week with the rising tide of life, just as the sea, running up the creeks and pushing itself forward inch by inch towards the land, comes at last to each remote rock pool.” –  H. V. Morton

“London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can teach about disaster, survival, and redemption. It is all there in the streets. It is all there in the books.” –  Anna Quindlen

“Noon comes with bells on, because this is London, and London is a city of bells. From its heart to its ragged edges, they bisect the day in a jangle of sound: peals and tinkles and deep bass knells. They ring from steeples and clocktowers, from churches and town halls, in an overlapping celebration of the everyday fact that time passes.” –  Mick Herron

“I got to the top and looking down upon London. Well, I realised I’d arrived. The sky was scattered with cumulus. The red, pink and orange came from everywhere. I looked towards The North, East, South and West. I have them in the palm of my hand. I own London. In that sense London owns me.” –  Scarlet West

“Live your life in any way, London says. It encourages defiance. I loved what it gave me, who it allowed me to be. On the nights I could afford a minicab home, I rolled down the window while crossing the river and watched the lights on the water, knowing most late-night minicabbers were reaffirming their love of London with the same view. I loved its messiness, its attempts at order. I loved the anonymity it afforded.” –  Craig Taylor

“London always reminds me of a brain. It is similarly convoluted and circuitous. A lot of cities, especially American ones like New York and Chicago, are laid out in straight lines. Like the circuits on computer chips, there are a lot of right angles in cities like this. But London is a glorious mess. It evolved from a score or so of distinct villages, that merged and meshed as their boundaries enlarged. As a result, London is a labyrinth, full of turnings and twistings just like a brain.” –  James Geary

“I like walking round London at night, I do it all the time. Not for no reason, just cos… it’s home, innit? It’s brilliant, you can’t ever get bored of London cos even if you live here for like a hundred and fifty years you still won’t ever know everything about it. There’s always something new. Like, you’re walking round somewhere you’ve known since you was born and you look up and there’s an old clock on the side of a building you never seen before, or there’s a little gargoyley face over a window or something. Don’t you think it’s cool?” –  Richard Rider

“I love London. I love everything about it. I love its palaces and its museums and its galleries, sure. But also, I love its filth, and damp, and stink. Okay, well, I don’t mean love, exactly. But I don’t mind it. Not any more. Not now I’m used to it. You don’t mind anything once you’re used to it. Not the graffiti you find on your door the week after you painted over it, or the chicken bones and cider cans you have to move before you can sit down for your damp and muddy picnic. Not the everchanging fast food joints – AbraKebabra to Pizza the Action to Really Fried Chicken – and all on a high street that despite its three new names a week never seems to look any different. Its tawdriness can be comforting, its wilfulness inspiring. It’s the London I see every day. I mean, tourists, they see the Dorchester. They see Harrods, and they see men in bearskins and Carnaby Street. They very rarely see the Happy Shopper on the Mile End Road, or a drab Peckham disco. They head for Buckingham Palace, and see waving above it the red, white and blue, while the rest of us order dansak from the Tandoori Palace, and see Simply Red, White Lightning, and Duncan from Blue. But we should be proud of that, too. Or, at least, get used to it.” –  Danny Wallace

Funny London Quotes

“London is a splendid place to live in for those who can get out of it.” –  George John Gordon Bruce

“The first twenty-four hours of a young man’s life in London usually settled his eternity in heaven or hell.” –  George Williams

“Yes, London. You know, fish, chips, cup o tea, bad food, worse weather, Mary-fucking-Poppins. London!” –  Dennis Farina (Snatch)

“Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.” –  Oscar Wilde

“I’m leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it’s not raining.” –  Groucho Marx

“In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.” –  John Osborne

“Nothing is certain in London but expense.” –  William Shenstone

“Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.” –  Jack Kerouac

“When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.” –  Bette Midler

“Take a perfect day, add six hours of rain and fog, and you have instant London.” –  Unkown

“A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.” –  George Bernard Shaw

“London, a city where creativity and innovation have always flourished, provides a significant home for Starbucks and a significant gateway into Europe.” –  Howard Schultz

“A person who is tired of London is not necessarily tired of life; it might be that he just can’t find a parking place.” –  Paul Theroux

“How can you ever be late for anything in London? They have a huge clock right in the middle of the town.” –  Jimmy Kimmel

“In many ways, London is like a great big  pinata , and everyone who lives here is like an excited, blindfolded child with a heart full of hope and a big flailing stick. Aim that stick right and London will split at the seams like a ruptured spleen, showering you with the most extraordinary places to visit, places like you won’t find anywhere else in the world. Get it wrong and the chances are you’ll lose your footing and end up in a frustrated, eyeless heap.” –  Paul Carr

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One of the most iconic cities in the world, London doesn’t need an introduction. From Red Telephone Boxes to Big Ben to Westminster Abbey to the River Thames to the London Eye – London is drool-worthy. No wonder so many people have raved about the capital of the United Kingdom . If you’re looking for some inspiration for your next trip to the UK or a nice London caption for Instagram, here, we bring you our favorite London quotes.

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You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. ~ Samuel Johnson The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent. ~ Henry James.  Yes, London. You know, fish, chips, cup o tea, bad food, worse weather, Mary-fucking-Poppins. London! ~ Dennis Farina I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost. ~ V. S. Naipaul A person who is tired of London is not necessarily tired of life; it might be that he just can’t find a parking place. ~ Paul Theroux I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets, and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity? ~ Charlotte Brontë Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It’s the second biggest cause of death among the English in general. Sheer boredom. ~ Alexander McCall Smith I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air — or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner? ~ Virginia Woolf It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed. ~ George VI There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear — the city of London and the South Seas. ~ Herman Melville I walk to Oxford Street and climb on the number 8. It’s freezing and it starts to rain and it’s the ugliest bus I’ve ever seen, rattling down the ugliest streets, in the ugliest city, in the ugliest country, in the ugliest of all possible worlds. ~ David Thewlis I’ve been walking about London for the last 30 years, and I find something fresh in it every day. ~ Walter Besant I have often amused myself with thinking how different a place London is to different people. ~ James Boswell This melancholy London – I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air. ~ William Butler Yeats It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed. ~ King George VI

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The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. ~ Oscar Wilde London is a modern Babylon. ~ Benjamin Disraeli  Nothing is certain in London but expense. ~ William Shenstone “London is a splendid place to live in for those who can get out of it. ~ George John Gordon Bruch, Lord Balfour of Burleigh I think London’s sexy because it’s so full of eccentrics. ~ Rachel Weisz If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting. ~ Peter Shaffer London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie. ~ William Dunbar  London, London, London town, You can toughen up or get thrown around. ~ Kano The parks be the lungs of London. ~ Charles Dickens If you’re curious, London is an amazing place. ~ David Bailey

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London Travel Quotes

London is a favored city on everybody’s bucket list. You can visit the city for a week or explore London in one day , but you will never get over it. Read these London quotes that echo the same feeling.

I travel continuously, and I see many cities, but there is nowhere like London. ~ Norman Foster There’s a hole in the world…Like a great black pit…And the vermin of the world…Inhabit it…And it goes by the name of London. ~ Stephen Sondheim The vibe of London as a city is captivating. It’s both fast-paced and extremely rushed but still has the calmness that would attract any big-city person. ~ Ali Fazal As to London, we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper. ~ Goldwin Smith I long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of humanity, to share its life, its change, its death, and all that makes it what it is. ~ Bram Stoker, Dracula You will recognise, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realise for the first time how young the policemen look. ~ Sir Seymour Hicks. London always reminds me of a brain. It is similarly convoluted and circuitous. A lot of cities, especially American ones like New York and Chicago, are laid out in straight lines. Like the circuits on computer chips, there are a lot of right angles in cities like this. But London is a glorious mess. ~ James Geary It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air — or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle One of the things I most liked about the city – apart from all its obvious attractions, the theatre, the galleries, the exhilarating walks by the river – was that so few people ever asked you personal questions. ~ Julia Gregson By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show. ~ Samuel Johnson.

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Famous Sayings About London

In London, everyone is different, and that means anyone can fit in. ~ Paddington Bear I don’t know what London’s coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals. ~ Noël Coward The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. ~ Jane Austen  London goes beyond any boundary or convention. It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement ever expressed. It is illimitable. It is Infinite London. ~ Peter Ackroyd Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be. ~ Oscar Wilde The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. ~ Stephen Fry

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Funny London Quotes

A bad day in London is still better than a good day anywhere else. To walk alone in London is the greatest rest. ~ Virginia Woolf. London is a roost for every bird. ~ Benjamin Disraeli London is a bad habit one hates to lose. ~ William Sansom. In London, we don’t give a toss who you are. The taxman might though. In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea. ~ John Osbourne

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London Captions

Keep calm and go to London. From London with love. There’s no place like London. London is always a good idea. Wear your crown and go to London. Up in the clouds, on my way to London. Relationship status: crushing on Big Ben. Here’s the hot tea from London.

More London Instagram Captions

Falling hard for London. London will always be on my mind. Living the London life. Skyhigh in the London Eye. There will always be London. London calling! Living like the royals. Let’s cross that Tower Bridge when we get to it. Doing this sweet thing called traveling to London. Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you a ticket to London and that’s pretty much the same thing.

London Poems: London in Poetry

You are now…In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow…At once is deaf and loud and on the shore…Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more…Yet in its depth what treasures! ~ P.B. Shelley Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner…That I love London so…Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner…That I think of her wherever I go…I get a funny feeling inside of me…Just walking up and down…Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner…That I love London town. ~ Hubert Gregg The human moths about the light…Dash and cling close in dazed delight…And burn and laugh, the world and wife…For this is London, this is life! ~ Richard Le Gallienne London opens to you like a novel itself… It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, doors, and passages. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand. ~ Anna Quindlen A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping…Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye…Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping…In sight, then lost amidst the forestry…Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping…On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown…On a fool’s head – and there is London Town.  ~ Lord Byron I swear to god I heard the earth inhale…Moments before it spat its rain down on me…I swear to God in this light and on this evening… London’s become the most beautiful thing I’ve seen… ~ The Editors I wandered through each chartered street…Near where the chartered Thames does flow…A mark in every face I meet…Marks of weakness, marks of woe. ~ William Blake So how can you tell me you’re lonely, And say for you that the sun don’t shine? Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London…I’ll show you something to make you change your mind… ~ Ralph McTell

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Funny London Captions and London Puns

London is my cup of  tea . The street art in London is very ad – mural – able. This little piggy went to Camden Market . Home is where the  palace  is. Sticks and  scones  may break my bones. The traffic in London is like a  Piccadilly Circus. From now on, I’m posting on Instagram from across the  pond . Here I go  to   Big Ben  on my own. Cheaper by the London . Visiting Buckingham Palace, but I’m having a bad heir day. I’m about to enjoy the  showers  of London. Having the best Thames in London. Watching the River Thames is one of the world’s most famous live streams .

Some More Puns about London

Eye  came.  Eye  saw.  Eye  conquered. London,  Eye’m  a fan! I can’t be  Thamed . Where have you  Ben   all my life? 50 shades of Earl Grey. I tried to grab a pic of London fog, but I  mist . Talk British to me. Never met a  scone   I didn’t like. Mind the gap! Can you pass the  tea and scones , please? Feeling ticked off at Big Ben.

London Jokes

All London policemen have disappeared! Investigators are out of Leeds. It should be illegal for London to go into lockdown over Christmas!… That’s capital punishment! Why are policemen in London so tall? Because they’re paid by the Yard! I know a girl from London named Brittany. I know another girl from New York named Americany. LondON. LondOFF. You know what New York City said to London when it was his turn? Europe . I can’t Stanmore of these jokes.

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Hope you like our list of quotes on London. Which one is your all-time favorite from all the London city quotes?

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70 top travel quotes for holiday inspiration

Looking for Travel Inspiration?

This collection of 70 of the best travel quotes from the most famous travellers and celebrities are sure to inspire you to take a holiday.

From Elvis Presley to Oscar Wilde this huge collection of famous travel quotes will serve to inspire you to explore more of this wonderful world we live in.

The 70 top inspirational travel quotes…

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain “You can’t have a narrow mind and a thick passport.” Pauline Frommer

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” Pat Conroy “To travel is to live.” Hans Christian Anderson

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” Jawaharial Nehru “To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” Danny Kaye

“I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” Hilaire Belloc “The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” Samuel Johnson

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” James Michener “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” Lao Tzu “No matter where you go, there you are.” Buckaroo Banzi “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” Irving Wallace

“Adventure is worthwhile.” Aristotle “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” Lawrence Block

“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” Samuel Johnson “Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before.” Dalai Lama

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” Helen Keller “A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place….” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one.” Thomas Wolfe “People don’t take trips . . . trips take people.” John Steinbeck

“I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” Lillian Smith “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” Seneca

“I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list.” Susan Sontag “Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.” Tennessee Williams

“One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.” Richard Burton

“Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.” Thomas Fuller “I would rather own little and see the world than own the world and see little of it” Alexander Sattler

“Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” Benjamin Disraeli

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” Henry Miller “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” Aldous Huxley

“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” Caskie Stinnett “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” Paul Theroux “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” Charles Dudley Warner

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” Martin Buber “Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.” Ray Bradbury

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” Paul Theroux

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” Moorish proverb “Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” Miriam Beard

“To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.” Charles Horton Cooley “Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.” William James

“I’ve been homesick for countries I’ve never been, and longed to be where I couldn’t be.” John Cheever “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness” Mark Twain

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” Cesare Pavese

“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it” Rosalia de Castro

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101 Best Travel Quotes in the World with Pictures

Written By: The Planet D

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Updated On: April 7, 2024

We all know that travel quotes can be powerful. From inspirational travel quotes to motivational quotes about traveling we find that other people often say the words better than we can so we put together these inspiring words of wisdom with our favorite quote photos.

101 Best Travel Quotes

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Through inspirational quotes, Dave and I have been motivated to take chances, we’ve been inspired to travel,  and strive to live a better life. When we started our travel blog in 2008, we gathered travel quotes to share and were the original bloggers who shared daily inspiring quotes on Twitter more than 15 years ago. Whether you enjoy short quotes or longer ones you are going to enjoy these motivational quotes about traveling .

Favorite Travel Quotes

Inspiring travel quotes have certainly ignited our spirit of exploration and captured the essence of why we travel. For example,

• “A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles,” by Tim Cahill reminds us that experiences and connections matter more than distances traveled.
• Another stirring quote is “Life is short and the world is wide,” attributed to Simon Raven, emphasizing our limited time to explore a vast world.
• The wisdom in St. Augustine’s words, “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page,” encourages us to broaden our horizons through travel.
• John Steinbeck’s famous saying, “People don’t take trips, trips take people,” reflects the transformative power of travel.
• “Travel far, pay no fare… a book can take you anywhere,” by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, suggests that even in the absence of physical travel, we can journey through the pages of a good book.
• “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving” ~ Lao Tzu

Each of these travel quotes offers a unique perspective on the enriching experiences travel brings to life.

Feel free to pin, use as Instagram captions, download, and print these best travel quotes to put up these best travel quotes around your house for inspiration!

1. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” ~ Saint Augustine

Let’s kick our list off with some of the more famous travel quotes by famous people. We’ll get to the more obscure as we go down the list.

This is definitely one of the best travel quotes of all time, but it certainly reads true. One of our favorite travel quotes is “The World is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

When you travel, the whole world opens up. Travel has helped us to understand the meaning of life and it has helped us become better people. Each time we travel, we see the world with new eyes. Just like reading a book, when you travel, you experience more than only one page of life. Make your life a novel, not a page.

2. “Not all those who wander are lost” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

This is one of our favorite travel quotes because it gets us. Throughout our lives, people have thought that because we keep traveling and searching for new things to do, we are not focused.

They have often thought we were flaky or unfocused. But travel helped us find our purpose and put focus into our lives. The more we got lost in our travels, the richer our lives became.

Seriously people, not all those who wander are lost. That’s a statement and a quote.

So when you think that the travelers in your life are flighty remember, “not all who wander are lost “

3. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all” ~ Helen Keller

If Helen Keller can look at life as a great adventure, what excuse do the rest of us have? Take a chance and live life to the fullest. When we are at our most daring is when we feel the most fulfillment.

When we think of this travel quote, we live by it. Adventure is different for everyone, but we try to treat each day by doing something daring and adventurous, it keeps things exciting.

I wonder what she would think now knowing that she is quotes as having one of the most popular travel quotes in the world.

4. “Take only memories, leave only footprints” ~ Chief Seattle

Chief Seattle had many inspiring quotes, but this is probably the most famous of travel quotes, it is also a motto everyone should live by in life.

We need to give back to this world. People often feel they can take home a trophy, sneak a piece of stone from a historic site , or take something from nature.

Travel isn’t about taking, it is about absorbing the beauty of the world. So remember, sometimes only memories are all you need. They are your only private moments to enjoy. So try to take only memories.

5. “Travel is  fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” ~ Mark Twain

Travel opens our minds and heart and makes us better people. One of our favorite travel quotes by Mark Twain.

6. ” The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ~ Marcel Proust

When thinking about travel quotes, we often look to the most popular ones, but quote really make me think. Sure, we can set sail to different lands, but until you change your mind set, you’ll never really immerse in a voyage of discovery.

7. “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” ~ Gustave Flaubert

Traveling quotes often mention the fact of how travel makes you humble and how life experiences are more important than accumulating things.

8. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do” ~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.

This doesn’t necessarily need to be related to travel quotes it can work for life quotes too. It can be scary to try something new, take a chance, and step out of your comfort zone. But when looking back on life, it’s the chances you didn’t take that you’ll regret.

9. Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” ~ Hemmingway

As a travel couple, this is one of those travel quotes that is close to our hearts. We love traveling together and couldn’t imagine doing it alone.

10. “Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli

This is one of those travel quotes that sum up a traveler perfectly. Over the years, our memories of our travels change and our stories become larger than life. Not only do we forget the bad and remember only the good, but the senses stick with us.

11. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

Before we started traveling in 2000, I only dreamed of writing for a living. But after our travels, I was so moved by many of our experiences I started writing stories to my friends and family.

When we first set off to begin our travel blog, a friend shared the works and travel quotes of Ibn Battuta with me it was through these early recommendations inspired me to become a storyteller.

No best travel quotes list would be complete without adventure quotes. Travel is an adventure and they go hand in hand. These are some of our favorite quotes about the adventure that we’ve collected over the years.

12. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal” ~ Paul Coelho

Travel quotes about adventure are our favorite because we are always pushing our boundaries and when we’re feeling a little afraid or lazy, we always think of this quote. Plus, I like this much better than his other quote: “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.”

13. “Great things never came from comfort zones.” ~ Anonymous

It’s true! Of all the travel quotes in this list, I really feel that it rings true to life. Even if you are not traveling, you need to step out of your comfort zone.

Be it taking on a new project, opening a business, or enrolling in a course. When you do something that scares you a little, you can do something great.

14. “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” ~ Maya Angelou

When looking for travel quotes about adventure travel, this one really stuck out by Maya Angelou. It wasn’t until we started to live a life less ordinary that we understood how much control we had over our lives and just how amazing we could make it.

15. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey” ~ Babs Hoffman

This doesn’t only have to be one of those quotes on travel alone. Life itself has a lot of potholes. Whether you are traveling or at home working at your job, you should definitely enjoy the journey.

16. “Fear is only temporary. Regrets last forever.”

Are you wanting to travel the world but are afraid to take the next step? The travel quote above says it all. Fear is only temporary , but if you don’t follow your dream, you may regret it forever.

We are not saying to follow travel quotes like this blindly. Don’t put yourself in dangerous situations, but don’t let being afraid of the unknown consume you either.

17. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

This is one of my favorite travel quotes on adventure travel. It’s scary to step out of your comfort zone, but if you do so with proper training and guidance, a whole new life will begin!

18. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind”

Well to me this quote means you have to leave your burdens, your stress, and your preconceived notions behind. To understand travel, you must be open to new possibilities and it will change your life.

19. “Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. ~ David McCullough

This is one of those quotes about travel that has never rung truer than in today’s society. Everyone is traveling to show off and brag or catch a selfie rather than to have an experience. But its the experience that you’ll remember, not the social share.

20. “Jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul.” ~ Jamie Lyn Beatty

It’s true, we all have to do our job and have our careers. And that is important we need to make money to be able to live. But it is also important to take time to smell the roses and let go of work when you are not in the office.

We have always looked at our lives this way, jobs fill your pocket so that you can spend your down time having a great adventure. Be it travel or at home, life begins outside the office.

I love funny travel quotes. Sometimes when we get stressed out or frustrated with travel, we need to sit back and laugh about the little things.

21. “Don’t worry about the world ending today, it’s already tomorrow in Australia.” ~ Charles M. Schulz

We all have worries every day and more than ever the state of the world is in question. But travel makes you forget your troubles and Charles Schulz couldn’t have said it better. It’s the funniest of travel quotes.

22. “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate people than to travel with them.” ~ Mark Twain

We have always given the advice that if you want to test to see if you are compatible in your relationship, go and travel together for a while.

Mark Twain could not be more correct. If you can travel with someone you’ll be friends for life! So put these travel quotes to the test and travel with someone right now!

23.  “A Journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you can control it. ” ~ John Steinbeck

When traveling, things are often out of our control and we have found that it is better to relax and let go. And that is true for our marriage as well. We can’t always be in control and that is half the fun!

24. “Drink Heavily with locals whenever possible.” ~ Anthony Bourdain

This is a rather funny travel quote by Anthony Bourdain, but it is also very true. Some of our best travel experiences have been when having a few drinks with the locals.

So when we are out late at night, we look to these types of travel quotes for justification. hah!

25. “I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places” ~ Henny Youngman

This quote reminds me of my dad. He’s always telling silly jokes like this and I love it!

26. “There is nothing safer than flying, it’s the crashing that’s dangerous.” ~ Theo Cowa

For those of you who are afraid to fly, I am afraid that you are not going to find the humor in this travel quote, but I find it quite cheeky.

27. “I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.” ~ Bob Hope

This one made me chuckle because we were just in Ottawa (Canada’s National Capital) and we made a point of saying “ Now we know where our taxes go, look at all the beautiful museums and buildings in this city! ”

And even though Bob Hope was talking about his home country of the USA, it certainly rings true anywhere. So, we put it in our best travel quotes list, because everyone can relate!

28. “Jet Lag is for Amateurs.” ~ Dick Clark

While I think it’s a funny travel quote, I tend to disagree with Dick Clark. It seems that the more I travel, the worse jet lag gets. But then I suck it up and think of him and then I say “Deal with it Deb, Jet Lag is for amateurs.” See, travel quotes can be motivating!

29. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” ~ Paul Theroux

I love this travel quote so much because it is very true. When we come home from our travels, we always forget the tough times and difficult experiences.

We only remember the beautiful things about our travels and the bad stuff fades away. But let me tell you, we’ve had some very unglamorous travels in our lives.

30. “I wish I had never gone traveling.” Said no one ever.

I don’t know who said this travel quote, but it is straightforward and to the point. If you are looking for travel quotes that capture the feeling of travel, this is it!

Inspirational Quotes About Travel

Inspirational travel quotes can be life-changing. I used to have quotes taped all over my house and now that we have moved into a house again, I’m collecting inspiring quotes about life and adventure. Words have meaning and can change mindsets.

31. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ~Andre Gide

I am going to update this quote though and say Woman and Man Cannot discover new oceans until they lose sight of the shore.

When Dave and I first started our careers in travel, we kept one toe in our careers and one toe in travel. It wasn’t until we finally let go of our safe life in the film industry and took a chance to go all into our new adventure travel careers that everything changed.

32. “It’s Better to Travel Well than to Arrive” ~ Buddha

33. “it is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way.” ~ penelope riley.

We all make mistakes in life and travel. Travel quotes can be relatable in life as well. And it really is the mishaps and adventures you have along the road of life and travel that make for everlasting memories.

34. “The important thing is to never stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing” ~ Albert Einstein

35. “travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”.

Okay so maybe it isn’t exactly the truest of travel quotes because if you buy a house, it may grow in value and if you buy stocks, you may get lucky and hit the jackpot, but you can never go wrong with travel.

But travel brings riches in life with experiences, learning, and making new friends.

36. “I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little of it.” ~ Alexander Sattler

Quotes about traveling often have a message of being free from possessions and things, and instead of having life experiences instead. It think this travel quote says it the best.

37.  “It is better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.”

When we saw the Taj Mahal for the first time, we had heard about it many times. We had read about it and people had told us all about it. But it wasn’t until we saw it that we really understand its beauty and meaning.

38. Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow

We agree with this travel quote indeed. Travel changes a person and it is because of the people you meet and the experiences you have. It is true that you take a piece of a place home with you.

39. “When was the last time you did something for the first time.” ~ Anonymous

We have found that travel gives us the courage to try new things. When we are home in our routine, we become comfortable. But when we travel, we are inspired by others and inspired by the destination.

40. “Someday I’m going to be free and I’m going to travel the world.”

Before we started traveling full time we felt trapped. When we started putting our minds to living a life of travel, we felt the barriers break and soon we were living our dream. This quote is very close to our hearts.

41. “You may say that I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us and the world will be as one.” ~ John Lennon

Travel brings people together. It helps people understand other cultures and religions. What we think we know about other places is thrown out the window, once we land on their soil.

So get out there, meet other people and you’ll soon see that people around the world are just like you and me.

Short Travel Quotes Captions

Dave and I have been gathering quotes about travel for 20 years and shared them since we started our travel blog in 2008. They have always helped to pick us up when we’re down, put life in perspective, or just brought a smile to our faces.

These are our favorite traveling quotes we’ve posted on social media from Twitter to Pinterest .

42. “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets” ~ Oscar Wilde

For life and travel, we all must follow our path without making excuses and we should never live with regrets.

43. “We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us.”

Many people think traveling quotes are all about people escaping and dreaming. But to us, this quote captures exactly the essence of travel. We never traveled to escape life, we always traveled to find ourselves.

44. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” ~ John Steinbeck

We all take trips, but most of the time the trip ends up taking a life of its own.

45. “Don’t listen to what they say, go see” ~ Chinese Proverb

Perhaps people tell you not to go to a place because they think it is awful when it is really beautiful. Or perhaps someone constantly tells you how wonderful a destination is.

Go and see for yourself and make up your own mind. That’s what this says to me.

46. “Don’t Quit Your Day Dream”

One of my favorite quotes about wanderlust. One of the things Dave and I are most thankful for is the fact that we never stopped dreaming.

If we settled (like we were supposed to in life) we’d still be working at our jobs thinking we weren’t allowed to have dreams once we reached a certain age. Never stop dreaming.

47. “I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way”

Isn’t this just the dream? I love it when I take a trip and clearly do not have a plan. That is when the real adventures happened in our travels.

48. “Oh, the places you’ll go.” ~ Dr Seuss

It’s a short one, but oh it’s a good one. Whenever we meet someone that is starting to travel or is thinking of traveling, we always think of this quote by Dr. Suess.

These words make us think of adventure. Oh the Places You’ll Go! Doesn’t this make you excited to get out and explore thw world?

49. “Try to Be a Rainbow in Someone Else’s Cloud” ~ Maya Angelou

50. “life’s a journey, not a destination” ~aerosmith.

Okay so maybe Ralph Waldo Emerson deserves the credit for Life is a journey, not a destination, but we heard it first through Aerosmith, so I’m giving it to Aerosmith. Because I couldn’t find the proof anyway.

I’ll never forget being in Vietnam in 2003 and while sitting in a bar, they encouraged travelers to write their favorite quotes on its wall.

What did Dave choose? Life’s a journey, not a destination naturally. We have always lived by this motto and of course adventure is for everyone.

51. “Where to next?”

“Where will you travel next? How will travel change you and how will you change the world?”

52. “To Travel is to Live” ~ Hans Christian Anderson

Why does this travel quote resonate so much with us? Before we traveled, we felt that we never truly lived. The more we worked, the more exhausted and disconnected we felt. When we introduced travel into our lives, we felt alive again.

53. “I want to make memories all over the world”

To us, memories mean more than things. When we are out with friends, we have so much to talk about. It’s way more meaningful to have a memory to share than to show off a “thing.”

Meaningful Quotes About Travel

54. “whenever you find yourself on the side of majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” ~ mark twain.

Mark Twain is one of the greats when it comes to creating famous quotes about travel. We have always tried to live a life less ordinary and think outside the box. I do believe this has helped us have success in our business and our relationship.

55. “The world is changed by your example, not your opinion.” ~ Paul Coelho

I think in today’s society this travel quote couldn’t be truer. Many people are quick to attack others through social media and everyone has an opinion.

But what about “being the change?” Positive leadership can be powerful.

56. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” ~ Aldous Huxley

We often have preconceived notions of what other countries are like. But once we visit a destination, we realize that we have it all wrong.

Travel helps us to understand and learn about different cultures and ways of life. We always encourage people to visit other countries to understand the people and cultures around the world.

It’s impossible to truly understand a place until you have met the people, and immersed in the culture.

57. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~ Gandhi

Travel often opens our eyes to different ways of thinking and understanding the world. We as travel bloggers love to preach what we have learned to the world, but we also need to live by example.

58. “There’s a sunrise and sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.”

59. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

I’ll never forget saying to Dave “I need meaning to my travels” when we first started traveling. It was by creating this blog, creating our videos, and creating our purpose to share our experience that I finally created myself.

60. “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.” ~ Johnathan Winters

This is certainly one of the best motivational quotes that have to do with travel.

I often hear people complaining that they can never catch a break. But you know what? You can’t wait for things to happen, you have to make them happen.

61. “Without new experiences, something inside us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.”

Travel can awaken the giant within. It did for us!

62. “Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.” ~ Rick Watson

Don’t get lost in the crowd. Be an individual. Think big and be brave. Stand out and live life to the fullest.

63. “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.”

All my life, I worked hard and dreamed of what I might do one day when I retire. Once I learned that doing what you love is happiness. We don’t have to dream about what might be one day.

64. “Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.”

Do you ever just stop and take a breath and look around? I am amazed at the little things. Too many of us wait until we are abroad to appreciate life and nature. Get out there now and start living today. From home!

65. “This heart of mine was made to travel this world”

Dave and I feel that our hearts were truly made to travel the world. Even when we worked in the film industry, we were always planning our next trip.

66. “The Impulse to Travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life”

It’s true. Whenever we have an upcoming trip, we always feel hopeful.

67. “Let’s find some beautiful place to get lost”

Do you get lost when you travel? Or are you a planner? Here, the anonymous traveler quotes an idea to go with the flow, just the way we like it.

68. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” ~ John Green

69. “Travel…the best way to be lost and found at the same time.” ~ Brenna Smith

71. “The journey is my home.”

Dave and I were on the road for seven solid years. We didn’t have a home. People often said to us that they couldn’t imagine not having a home base, but we felt at home on the road. We actually felt more at home on the road than at home.

Unique Travel Quotes

Not all of the best travel quotes are famous. We have dug deep down the rabbit hole of quotes to find some of the more unique quotes about travel out there. Enjoy!

71. “It’s a big world out there, it would be a shame not to experience it.”

We got this traveling quote from our friend JD of EarthXplorer. Well said JD! There is no better piece of advice. I wish my niece and nephews listened to me when I told them this.

72. “You can shake the sand from your shoes, but not from your soul.”

Whenever I read this quotation on travel, I always think of the singer Dido. Do you know that song ? “I’ve still got sand in my shoes and I can’t shake the thought of you.” When traveling to islands and beaches , this one always pops into my mind.

73. “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right.” ~ Anonymous

Over the years we have had many people ask us, “how did we have the courage to do what we do.” Truthfully, we never thought too much about what could go wrong.

When we knew we wanted to cycle Africa or climb a mountain, we didn’t focus on what could go wrong, instead, we focused on the excitement and challenges ahead. So we recommend using this travel quote to help you overcome the “what ifs in life.”

74. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” ~ Hilaire Belloc

When we first started traveling, people thought we were running away from things. But in truth, we were finding ourselves and we ran right toward our purpose in life. We have never felt so fulfilled as when we do when we’re traveling.

75. “It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you.”

We love traveling together and this is our favorite of all couple travel quotes. While we admire solo travelers we are so grateful to having someone to share special moments together.

76. “Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do, like breathing.” ~ Gayle Foreman

People often say to us “Oh, you must be such great travelers!” and we say, It’s not about being good at something, it is about enjoying what you do. If you enjoyed your travels and if you have a good time, you did a good job!

77. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

As we get older, we have developed a deeper appreciation of the time we have on earth. After spending many years doing something we did NOT love, we realized that time goes by quickly and we have to make the most of our time.

Now that we have a passion for our careers and adventures, we understand even more how true this quote is.

78. “It feels good to be lost in the right direction.”

Dave and I often get lost when traveling and it is usually the times that we take a wrong turn that we have our greatest adventures.

Getting lost is part of the fun of travel, so don’t over plan too much when planning your travels.

79. “Traveling allows you to become so many different versions of yourself.”

When we started traveling we discovered so many new things about ourselves and each other.

By stepping out of our comfort zone and trying new things, travel helped us become better people and this quote is definitely true for us.

80. “Travel has a way of stretching the mind.” ~ Ralph Crawshaw

Travel expands the mind and without having to study or read books or take a course. We learn and grow without even trying when we travel.

81. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” ~ Anotole France

Wow, this is certainly one of those deep travel quotes. But it is true! Humans are connected to the universe, when we get out and really travel, we feel that connection stronger.

82. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”

How many times have you gone traveling and thought that you have it all planned out? But it’s the surprises and secret destinations along the way that really stick with you for the rest of your life.

83. “A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.” ~ Tim Cayhill

People really do make the journey. We may only meet someone for a fleeting moment, but they often stay in our memories forever.

84. “Just Go. Go See all the Beauty in the World”

Each day we are grateful that we get to live in this beautiful world.

Not only is the earth’s scenery awe-inspiring, but there is a beauty in the people, culture, and wildlife that we have experienced.

I love hearing travel quotes from my favorite celebrities and people in history. Check these ones out and see what you think.

85. “I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

We just love to travel. It doesn’t matter where. No matter where we go, we always learn something new.

86. “If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them — wherever you go.” ~ Anthony Bourdain

87. “because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing your lawn. climb that damn mountain.” ~ jack kerouak.

We have our tasks and chores to do each day, but it is the unique challenges that come with an adventure that we will remember at the end of our lives. I want to be able to say “I climbed the mountain and I lived well.”

88. Paris is Always a Good Idea ~ Audrey Hepburn

89. You go away for a long time and return a different person – you never come all the way back ~ Paul Theroux

90. “you only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ~ mae west.

Ah, Mae West. I can just hear her saying this quote in that fabulous accent. I am sure she wasn’t talking about travel, but we can make anything related to travel quotes.

91. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference” ~ Robert Frost

Robert Frost said it best, if you take the road less traveled in life, you will probably see success. And when it comes to travel, you can find something amazing if you go off the beaten path.

92. “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel next, to find ourselves.” ~ Pico Iyer

93. “once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” ~ dalai lama.

94. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

95. “the only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.” ~ henry david thoreau.

96. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it” ~ Charles Dudley Warner

My favorite part of traveling is the anticipation. This captures that perfectly.

97.  “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens

98. “keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” ~ walt whitman.

I have found that travel has helped me become an optimist. The more experiences I have, the more positive my life becomes.

99. “Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud” ~ Maya Angelou

100. “perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” ~ maya angelou, 101. “the biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams” ~ oprah winfrey.

It was Oprah Winfrey that got us hooked on inspiring quotes so how could we not finish off our best travel quotes list with words of wisdom by the Grand Dame of Show Biz, inspiration, and philanthropy? And it is definitely a great way to end.

Bonus Travel Quotes

And we leave you with not the most inspirational travel quote, but this one is practical for travel.

“When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money”  – Susan Heller .

Not truer words have been said about packing. The best way to travel is to travel light. You can always buy something if you forgot it or need it, but seriously, chances are you probably won’t.

You’ll be surprised just how few clothes and accessories you’ll need to travel. So when packing for your next trip remember… When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. ~ Sir Richard Burton

It’s getting more difficult to find unknown lands as the world shrinks in the age of Instagram and TikTok. But it is still possible so, start searching for those unknown lands today.

And I think to myself, what a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong

And we leave you with the wise words of Louis Armstrong. Seriously, do you ever just think to yourself, what a wonderful world? We do.

When we took our first travels in 2000, we felt a huge change in ourselves. Our lives were never the same. We never came all the way back, we have left a piece of ourselves around the world and we wouldn’t have it any other way.

What are your favorite travel quotes? Now that we’ve got your wanderlust juices flowing, please share your favorite travel quotes in the comments below. Whether you are looking for an Instagram caption or inspiration, we hope these travel quotes have ignited your wanderlust!

All images belong to The Planet D and are from our travels around the world to seven continents and 110 countries.

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145 thoughts on “101 Best Travel Quotes in the World with Pictures”

Travel far, travel wide, and let your soul be your guide.”

Fantastic collection of travel quotes! Every single word goes well with the picture they’re pasted over. It is tough to say which one is the best travel quote.

Hi Dave and Deb,

I absolutely loved your article about the ultimate travel quotes! As someone who is always on the lookout for inspiration to travel, reading through these quotes made me feel excited and motivated to plan my next adventure. I especially loved the quote by Ibn Battuta that says “Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” It perfectly captures the transformative power of travel and how it can change us in so many positive ways.

Overall, your article was beautifully written and showcased a diverse range of travel quotes that were both inspiring and thought-provoking.

great article.. and the quotes were really inspiring.. i loved them.. thanks for the quotes.. i literally took snaps from my phone and kept it safe for captions when i travel and post..

Very informative and eye catchy images. keep it up. thanks

Thanks for sharing these lovely informative travel quotes with pictures.

Really good post. I love all the travel quotes. thanks for the list.

What beautiful places, I will add them to my travel list with my husband this vacation!

The best way to learn and gain knowledge is through travel, and I admire your originality. Outstanding writing. I appreciate the post.

Awesome travel quotes. Great source of inspiration.

Lovely travel quotes with pictures. these quotes are inspirable for travelers. Thanks for sharing.

Awesome collection of quotes. These are very inspiring for travelers. Thank you so much for sharing these beautiful quotations with us. Love this post.

I was searching for the best traveling quotes, and I came across your blog and read a few of them. Really, I like them all. It will be helpful for writing Instagram captions. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for a ‘Wonderful article’, so many reasons given to ‘make smiling a habit’!

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”. Can add this too 🙂

It was nice to go through your post. Thanks for sharing the beautiful quotes here. Keep up the good work. https://www.cakesandbakes.in/stories/category/customized-cakes/

It would be great if the pandemic ended soon so I could travel again for adventures. Thank you for sharing your quotes.

Your quotes is one of the best quotes that i have seen. specially number 90 which is “you only live once,but if you do it right ,once is enough” is best. Thanks to you for sharing such a nice things.

Great! Thanks for sharing really

Hi, Dave and Deb really I appreciate your creativity. Fantastic writing. Thanks

My favourite: You travel to see things and visit places – but what you remember when you come back home is the people you met…..

Who said so?

Great Words

I was looking for the best quotes for travelling and after getting your blog, I read some quotes. Really i like these all quotes. It will be helpful to me for write Instagram caption. Good job and keep sharing!

Wonderful collection

I was hoping the pandemic will end up so I can free travel again for adventure. Thanks a lot for sharing your collection qoutes.

Thanks for the travel quotes. I’m going to save some and print them out. My favorite is like a lot of people here. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. This year has proven that. We can’t sit around all day and be happy. Let’s make it an adventure.

My choices for the best travel quotes are: Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all Travel makes one modest you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page

Great travel quotes, although I don’t get this one… The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Does travel give you new eyes or do you have to have your eyes open before traveling? Hmm, things to think about.

These really are inspirational travel quotes. I love this one by Anthony Bourdain. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”

These are the best travel quotes I’ve seen! What a list! And thank you for the pictures. This phrase “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” Really puts it all into perspective. When you travel (really travel, not as a tourist) you understand that you are not the center of the universe. And I agree travel really does make you richer. Thanks

Wow! What a list of inspirational travel quotes. I’m going to print these off to get motivated and start saving for travels. Here’s to traveling the world! My favourites are Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore But I agree with you, it should be “people”

Thanks for the inspiration with these travel quotes. I am looking forward to traveling again!

Amazing list of travel quotes!! Truly inspiring. Keep up the great work!!

Those are amazing travel quotes, thanks for sharing! My favourite is “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before” by the Dalai Lama. May I share your picture of it on my social media? Of course, I’d mention that it belongs to you. Thanks and have a great day?

These are beautiful words to live by. Experience life and adventure.

Loved it: “KEEP YOUR FACE ALWAYS TOWARD THE SUNSHINE – AND SHADOWS WILL FALL BEHIND YOU.”

Congrats on the article and keep it updated! Love the one of: “Travel…the best way to be lost and found at the same time.” Travel is a mix of feeling with sometimes the fear of get lose but feeling free at the same time.

I wish you all a good holidays/travels for this 2021, if pandemics let us for sure! Keeping healthy is priority

Really amazing post on travel quotes, thanks for sharing these lovely quotes. And this particular quote “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.” is the perfect example of happiness. Please keep sharing these types of posts. Thanks once again

Really this is a great post I love that quote. It’s short and sweet and right to the point. I always find that it is the journey that can be life-changing and that offers me the most inspiration. Thanks for you

traveling is my hobby. I love traveling thanks for sharing this post

I personally believe that all travelers must pick inspiring travel quotes in there mind. It helps to enjoy the trip. I always do the same for me. By the way a fantastic 101 travel quotes list.

Thank you, Dave and Deb, for this collection. I read all 101.

Thank you! I am glad you enjoyed these trafel quotes. Do you have a favourite?

I love to travel but these quotes make me so dizzy. I wish I had wings!!!

Thank you for sharing such a large collection of quotes, during quarantine this is an excuse to distract a little)

I am glad we could distract you a little bit. I find travel quotes to be so inspiring. They often relate to other things in lie as well. All the best to you!

Great article had fun reading it anyway my personal fav is “It’s good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end”

I love that quote. It’s short and sweet and right to the point. I always find that it is the journey that can be life changing and that offers me the most inspirations.

My travels should be the freedom of your dreams…!!!

Thanks for sharing! I hadn’t heard this travel quote before! Cheers.

I love seeing the combinations of quotes matched with photos. I really should do this with a lot of our travel photos so I have something to look at and continually motivate me to keep adventuring and taking the path less followed.

Thanks! We actually had these travel quotes in a vault for years before finally posting them into one article. We used to share daily travel quotes on Instagram and Twitter and then a few years ago we decided that one comprehensive post would be a better idea. So we rounded them up and put them in. Quotes really are great motivators.

Yup, I agree, these quotes are nothing but brilliant.

Love it. Would save a few on my notebook, so that it can be a source of inspiration for me when I am actually traveling and need some inspirational juice.

Love this blog, may come back later to read other parts 🙂

Thanks so much for the kind words. I love having quotes handy for inspiration. Especially in these trying times. I used to keep sticky notes posted around the house for motivation. I think I’m going to have to do that again now that we are home more often (at least for a bit:)

This is another awesome post with loads of inspiring travel quotes. Thanks. 🙂

Thanks so much! We appreciate the kind words. Do you have a favourite? Or do you have any unique travel quotes to share? We always love finding new ones to inspire.

We have nothing to lose and a word to see!.

I love this! I assume that is “world to see?’. It’s another fantastic short travel quote that is completely to the point. Thanks for sharing.

wow!! It’s was quite overwhelming to read all these travel quotes. some of them which got stuck to my mind are- i) “THE MOST BEAUTIFUL IN THE WORLD IS, OF COURSE, THE WORLD ITSELF.” – WALLACE STEVENS ii)“TRAVELING ALLOWS YOU TO BECOME SO MANY DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF YOURSELF.” iii)“I HAVE FOUND OUT THAT THERE AIN’T NO SURER WAY TO FIND OUT WHETHER YOU LIKE PEOPLE OR HATE THEM THAN TO TRAVEL WITH THEM.” ~ MARK TWAIN iv) “TWENTY YEARS FROM NOW YOU WILL BE MORE DISAPPOINTED BY THE THINGS YOU DIDN’T DO THAN BY THE ONES YOU DID DO” ~ H. JACKSON BROWN JR

Those are fantastic! My favourite is “I HAVE FOUND OUT THAT THERE AIN’T NO SURER WAY TO FIND OUT WHETHER YOU LIKE PEOPLE OR HATE THEM THAN TO TRAVEL WITH THEM.” ~ MARK TWAIN” We have found this out first hand in our travels and there is no truer travel quote 😀

Didn’t see this one above but it’s one of my favorites and from a very well traveled Nat Geo photographer:

“Ibn Battuta never dwells on what drove him on.

Curiosity? Perhaps . . . More likely it was a quest for knowledge.

One never seduced by a foreign culture cannot appreciate the fetters of his own. Life, after all, is a journey – a voyage of discovery.

Why not take the high road?”

Thomas Abercrombie, National Geographic

Thanks for sharing, that’s a great message. I love finding new words of wisdom.

travel makes your mind opened wider than before dudes. so, let’s go to explore

Is that your own quote? I love it. It’s perfect, straightforward and bang on. Thanks for sharing.

My favourite quote isn’t above. “The Journey Is the Destination” Sorry, I don’t know the source. Jules (46 countries and still counting.)

Congratulations on the wonderful travels Jules! I love that quote too. I remember Aerosmith sang “Life’s a journey not a destination” and that always stuck with me as well. It is a very wise phrase.

I have really loved all the quotes, they speak into our lives. Thank you so much.

Thank you! I am glad that you scrolled through them all. All the best to you!

Travel is exciting. Your blog is great. I am very fascinated.

Thank you very much! all the best to you!

Awesome list of quotes. Thanks for sharing.

nice article dave and deb, really amazing to read…

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Awesome quotes, my favorite is “great things never came from comfort zones” .

These quotes are mind blowing.i want to go all of the dream places.thanks for the uploads good stuff

thank you for giving me wonderful information

Best Travel quotes I found on this website. Thank you…!!

Thanks for sharing traveling quotes.

Thanks for these quotes…. To me, traveling is my life.

Hey, Thanks for this article I love traveling. In these blogs lots of ideas, motivational thoughts as well as photos that I have to get inspired. Thank You

“ Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – Jennifer

I love this! Thank so much for sharing.

Thanks, Great list of quotes for travelers.

Thanks! We love gathering travel quotes

Inspiring travel quotes, thanks for sharing them with us.

Nice, I’m a professional photographer and these travel quotes work great. Thanks for sharing and keep up the good work!

Thanks very much for the kind words. That means a lot coming from a fellow photographer

Waving a big hello to you, friend! I like the “35. Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness” Looking forward to more recap posts from you!

A Big hello right back at ya! I love that quote too and the pride of the lion really captures the feeling.

I am so much motivated to travel, because of these quotes.

Awesome! So glad we could motivate you with these traveling quotes!

Travel is the best way to rejoin the world with your eyes.

Great list of quotes for travelers.

Nice Quotes, I like “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone”

Thanks for the post. “Don’t listen to what they say, Go see” is my favorite quote.

All are the best travel quotes, I have read in my life. Yes, Travelling provide a new direction and new motive to live a happy life. As I am concerned, Travel teaches various new lesson about life experiences, a strong will power for understanding others people.

This is just an amazing list! One of my favorite quotes is: “It is better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.”

The quotes are very cool.please keep writing. Thanks.

This is fantastic. Nice inspirational images with the nice line. I really appreciate your work

Really wonderful quotes I love seeing the combinations of quotes matched with photos.

I love this! It’s one thing to read a quote, but having an image attached really helps you to FEEL the quote.

I am so much motivated to travel, because of these quotes. Thanks for sharing…

First of all, thanks for sharing these lovely quotes. And this particular quote “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.” is the perfect example of happiness. Please keep sharing these type of posts.

Nice article and thanks for sharing! There are many good quotes in between but I think this is my favorite “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been with.”

We love reading travel quotes too – always a great source of inspiration!

Thanks, PlanetD You are Amazing …

These all quotes are amazing ”” I like to read again and again

Best quotes ever, i’ll use them in my travel blog! Keep it up

1. “You might not have been my first love but you were the love that made all the other love irrelevant”. 2. “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you”. 3. “I din’t leave because I stopped loving you I left because the longer I stayed the less i loved myself”.

Quotes to motivate you by Rupi Kaur.

Great article travel is life , birth to death you get all the experiences comes from people and you meet with people with help of travel. Travel is major part of our life live life travelish.

this whole post was amazing especially the pictures

Great collection of quotes! May I add another favorite quote of mine from John Galliano? ” I’m passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures… I’ve lived with Masai tribe… I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection. ” John Galliano

Great list of travel quotes!

Awesome quotes collection. Thanks for sharing such an amazing quotes stuff.

Very nice quotes.

Amazing quotes! That is true, nothing great can happen until we get out of the comfort zone. It’s just it can be so hard to take a first step and a lack of motivation is not really helping 🙂 But I think these quotes can give all the motivation and inspiration a person needs to start living a new exciting life. Thank you for posting!

Awesome post! I love all of these! Great blog too, really inspiring ?? I have just taken the plunge and started a travel blog. Ohh!

Thanks for sharing such a great collection bank of quotes,

I truly loved this post! And your images are unbelievable! I have traveled to Morocco a few times, but never during in winter. I did travel to Turkey during winter and it was not difficult at all to find best places for visit, like you said, it is fairly an exciting time to travel and the energy is really superior. Thanks to this post, I am not wanting to going back to Morocco!

inspiring quotes <3.. i also do blog about them regularly to remind me of bits and wisdom of life.

”I DONT WANT TO BE A MAJORITY OF PEOPLE RATHER I WANT TO BE A TRAVELLER OF MY LIFE……

Wonderful quotes I love seeing the combinations of quotes matched with photos. I really should do this with a lot of our travel photos so I have something to look at and continually motivate me to keep adventuring and taking the path less followed. Really thanks for sharing such beautiful quotes.

Thank you! Really good post and alive.

I love travel quotes…so inspiring and full of insight. Great collection.

Best quote is ” Great Things Never Came From Comfort Zone ” that is my motto too

” A JOURNEY IS BEST MEASURED IN FRIENDS RATHER THAN MILES ” this my favo quote 😀 share it if care it

Nice collection of inspiring travel quotes! I like it when one uses own pictures as inspiration for those quotes 🙂 One of my favourite quotes is “a ship is safe in harbour, but that’s not what ships are built for”. When browsing the internet for more info about this quote, I came across a poem with this quote in, and it’s really beautiful. I think at least 🙂 Here’s the link to that poem: http://www.thetravellingchilli.com/2014/11/ship-safe-harbour-thats-ships-built/

Thanks for this nice post!

You miss 100% of every shot you don’t take.–Wayne Gretzky This is how I live my life and view travel. I cannot see the world if I don’t take the shot to get out there.

That is an amazing one! And from a fellow Canuck! I’m going to use that if you don’t mind. I’ll be sure to tag you when I do! thanks for sharing.

Oh, I love this! It’s one thing to read a quote, but having an image attached really helps you to FEEL the quote. My favorite is the one about getting “lost in the right direction.” I feel that way very often 🙂

Thanks Jessica. It’s one of my favourite things to do each day. look for inspiring quotes and then look through Dave’s photos to match them up.

Travel is the best form of education!

Agreed! We’ve always said that is the best way to learn about culture, history, politics…so much!

Hi.! Thanks for sharing this lovely informations with pictures…I feel like saving them for futures references and facebook sharing…ofcourse your link will be there 🙂

Thank you. If you could credit ThePlanetD on facebook when you do that would be fabulous. Cheers!

Wow!! It is Very good through. I love to read that type thought. I am getting a good inspiration. thanks for sharing nice views.

So happy to hear we could inspire you! Cheers.

Really good post and alive photos! all photos are so nice, Our life is too short but we can make it very nice and most enjoyable to tour nice places in the world, Thanks for your nice post and some alive photos, have a enjoyable life!

Thank you! We enjoy putting the photos with the quotes, it helps them to come alive I think.

A couple on here I’ve not heard before.

My favourite quote is “Cover the earth before it covers you.” 🙂

That’s fantastic Raymond. I hadn’t heard of that one either! I’m glad that we could introduce you to a few new ones. I’m always trying to find new inspiration, but often it’s the oldies that are the goodies 🙂

Thank you! We enjoy putting the photos with the quotes

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Best travel insurance UK 2024 guide

We all deserve a break now and then. And the last thing you want to think of when booking your holiday is something going wrong. But it’s better to be prepared than caught off guard. That’s why you should always consider travel insurance when going on a trip.

But how can you find the best travel insurance policy for your needs? Read our guide below to find out more.

Why do I need travel insurance?

Travel insurance protects you financially if your trip away doesn’t go as planned and you incur unexpected expenses for delays, losses or medical treatment.

All travellers can benefit from travel insurance. But travel insurance is particularly important if you are going on an independent trip without a tour operator, because if something goes wrong, you will have no other help.

There are three main types of travel insurance:

• Single-trip cover: this is the most typical form of travel insurance, covering you for a one-off trip or holiday. There will be a time limit on the cover that can range anywhere between one month and 365 days
• Annual multi-trip cover: this allows you to make multiple trips, or have multiple holidays, in a 12-month period, all under the same travel insurance policy. There may be a cap on how long each individual trip can be
• Long stay, or backpacker, cover: this is normally used for around the world trips, gap years, and longer cruises, and can last for up to 18 months

To find the best UK travel insurance, compare policies before you go to ensure you get the right coverage for you and the specific trip you’re planning.

How to find the best travel insurance policy

When comparing policies to find the best travel insurance for your trip, you should consider: 

• Type of cover you need
• Excess (how much you’ll be expected to pay out yourself before the policy will cover you)
• Amount of medical coverage, and why pre-existing conditions aren’t included
• Limit on baggage claims
• Coverage for specific sports and activities
• Any potential rewards and discounts
• Add-ons, such as gadget insurance

Best travel insurance deals and discounts

Looking for the best travel insurance deals from the best travel insurance companies? In most cases, the easiest way to find the best travel insurance deals is to use a comparison website. Travel insurance comparison websites let you compare costs and coverage side by side to find the best UK travel insurance.

The four main comparison websites – Moneysupermarket, Comparethemarket, Confused.com and GoCompare – also often have certain deals and discounts when you buy travel insurance from them, offering some of the best travel insurance deals on the market.

Moneysupermarket : Find the same deal for less, and it will price match and give you a choice of a £20 gift card. Only on annual travel insurance.

Comparethemarket : Two for one cinema tickets with Meerkat Movies and savings at restaurants when you dine out or order pizza in with Meerkat Meals, as well as 25 per cent off coffee and pastries at Caffè Nero every day of the week through the Meerkat app.

(In November 2023, Confused.com and GoCompare had no deals or discounts for travel insurance).

Price is obviously a big consideration when you are looking for the best travel insurance – you’ve probably already spent a lot on your holiday. But you may be able to get much better coverage for just a few pounds extra, so it’s worth scrolling down the comparison site’s list of providers before buying.

Medical costs abroad will undoubtedly be the biggest expense you face if you fall ill abroad, so don’t scrimp on those.

Then think about your next biggest expense (probably cancellation/interruption of your trip) and make sure that you have high-value coverage for that.

If you find you can get much higher coverage (the maximum amount you can claim per type of claim, such as medical or baggage) for not very much more money, go for the slightly more expensive option.

Going direct

Comparison sites won’t always find you the cheapest deals, however. For example, Direct Line offers some of the best travel insurance with Covid cover and is not on comparison websites.

Some of the best travel insurance companies also offer discounts for buying directly from them, as follows:

Bundled coverage options

When looking for the best travel insurance for your holiday, it can make sense to buy a bundle of coverage under one policy.

Comparison websites will often offer add-on gadget cover, winter sports cover or cruise cover all under the one policy. If you need that extra cover, it is typically cheaper to buy your travel insurance this way rather than as separate policies.

What is covered by travel insurance?

The best travel insurance companies will offer you comprehensive coverage across all types of claims. It’s easy to compare the best travel insurance deals using a comparison website.

Medical coverage

This covers you for medical expenses you incur if you become ill or have an accident while away. The best UK travel insurance will have a high level of medical coverage.

For example, medical coverage will pay for any necessary treatment if you come down with severe food poisoning or you fall through a window and have to be taken to hospital in an ambulance.

• Avoid hefty bills or debt for medical assistance outside the UK
• Access better treatment – for example, at private vs public hospitals
• Often, as long as you declare existing conditions or pending treatment or tests, you are covered if you fall ill during your trip (check policy exclusions)
• Even the best travel insurance companies will likely charge you more if you have a pre-existing medical condition
• You might have to pay part or all your medical expenses first, then claim on the policy afterwards
• Even the best travel insurance companies do not cover events that happen after you have consumed alcohol excessively or taken recreational drugs or other substances

Trip cancellation/interruption

This insurance pays out the cost of your missed trip if you have to cancel or cut your holiday short due to unforeseen circumstances.

For example, cancellation insurance would normally pay out if you broke your leg just before you were due to travel and had to cancel your trip.

Interruption insurance would cover you if you had to come home early for certain reasons beyond your control – for example, if the area you were staying in was engulfed in wildfires.

• Money you would have lost on pre-paid, non-refundable travel expenses is paid to you under the policy
• It can be especially valuable if the trip you are planning is very expensive, as this is money you would lose if you couldn’t go
• You’ll usually only be covered if your trip is cancelled or cut short for specific reasons listed in your policy
• You usually won’t be covered if you miss your flight because you are held by customs or cancel because of a work issue or a pre-existing medical condition that is not covered

Baggage cover

This insurance covers the cost of replacing your luggage if it is lost or stolen.

For example, if an airline loses your luggage in transit or your suitcase is stolen from your hostel while you’re away, you can make a claim for the cost of replacing its contents.

You may also be able to claim for costs related to baggage delay if the airline temporarily misplaced your baggage.

• You can claim for the actual cash value of your belongings or the cost of replacing them (whichever is less)
• High-value items, such as jewellery or sports equipment, can be very expensive to replace without travel insurance
• Standard policies usually place per item and total limits on claims.
• If you are taking very expensive items away, check your policy carefully to ensure that you’re covered (and potentially get a separate policy)
• Some items could be covered by your home insurance policy, so check your policy carefully to see what is any isn’t. It’s also important to note that, should a lost item be covered by both policies, you can only claim once; an attempt to claim twice would be considered fraud

Personal liability

This insurance covers you if you are held responsible for harming another person or damaging their property.

For example, it covers you in situations where you cause serious damage to your holiday accommodation or accidentally stumble into someone else, causing them to need medical treatment.

• The cost of defending yourself in a legal case or repairing/replacing damage could be extremely costly without travel insurance
• Your travel insurance company will take over dealing with a foreign legal system
• You’re covered for the cost of any compensation (up to certain limits)

Limits: 

• Not all travel insurance provides personal liability as standard
• Policies may exclude personal liability while you partake in adventure activities
• Claims related to you committing a crime or damage by wilful negligence won’t be covered
• You likely will not be covered if you admit liability or make an offer to pay before talking to your insurer

Finding the best travel insurance with Covid cover

Looking for the best travel insurance with Covid cover? Many travel insurance policies now include cancellation cover for reasons related to Covid. This often applies within two weeks of being due to travel, according to the Association of British Insurers, but individual policies can vary.

To make a claim, insurers often require proof in the form of a medically approved positive Covid test. A lateral flow test or self-diagnosis is usually not accepted.

What Covid-related cover to look for

The best travel insurance with Covid cover should include the following:

• Cover if you can’t start your trip because you tested positive for Covid before travelling
• Cover if you or family members cannot return home because you/they test positive for Covid during the holiday
• Cover for additional costs, such as alternative flights, accommodation and Covid tests
• Cover if you cannot reach your final destination during transit due to Covid-19

Travel insurance providers with comprehensive Covid cover

Looking for the best travel insurance providers with Covid cover? Most travel insurance policies now offer some kind of Covid cover, but Churchill, Direct Line, M&S and Aviva have some of the most comprehensive offerings, with cover for cancellations and expenses related to Covid.

• Covid covered as standard on travel insurance policies
• Cover for trip cancellations if you, a close relative or a travelling companion is diagnosed with Covid-19 or another pandemic disease
• Cover if you or a person you’re planning to stay with must quarantine (abroad or in the UK)
• Cover if you can’t use pre-booked and pre-paid accommodation affected by Covid-19
• Cover for quarantine or where the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) advises against travel within 28 days of departure
• Cover for emergency medical expenses abroad due to Covid-19

Direct Line

• Cover for travel to a destination where the FCDO is advising against all but essential travel 
• Cover for medical expenses if you catch Covid-19 while you’re away 
• Cover for additional accommodation and transport if you have to quarantine due to Covid
• Cover for cancellation costs if you or a close relative get Covid-19 before you go
• Cover for quarantine or if the FCDO changes its advice after you book your trip
• Cover if you have to cut your trip short if the FCDO changes its country advice unexpectedly

• Cover for emergency medical expenses if you catch Covid-19 during your trip
• Cover for unrecoverable costs up to £6,000 if you must cancel your trip or return early, including if you have to self-isolate or quarantine before you travel due to Covid-19
• Cover for if you need to cancel your trip due to a positive Covid-19 test or if the FCDO advise against travel to your destination in the 31 days leading up to your trip
• Providing you haven’t travelled against FCDO advice, you’ll also be covered if you catch Covid-19 while abroad

• Coverage of up to £5,000 per person if you must cancel your trip due to getting Covid (you’ll need to provide confirmation and evidence of a positive test result)
• Cover for Covid-related emergency medical treatment and expenses while away
• Cover if you unexpectedly need to quarantine, including extra travel and accommodation costs to get home (provided a return trip was booked) 
• Cover for costs for any accommodation and excursions unused due to getting Covid where the costs can’t be recovered elsewhere
• No cover you if you travel against FCDO advice*
• No cover if you can’t travel because you don’t meet the entry requirements of a country (such as having had Covid vaccinations)*

* It’s worth noting that these clauses are not unusual and the majority of providers will have something similar

Tips for selecting the best UK travel insurance packages

Need some help picking the best UK travel insurance packages to make sure that you get the best travel insurance deals? Here are some tips for picking the best policy features for you.

Coverage limits

When looking for the best travel insurance companies to go with, check coverage limits. These are the maximum amounts your travel insurer will pay if you need to claim. You’ll see when you compare travel insurance policies that coverage limits vary for each type of claim and between policies.

The government-backed MoneyHelper website recommends that the best UK travel insurance should have the following minimum coverage for each type of claim:

• Medical: £1m or more for travel to Europe and £2m or more for the US
• Cancellation/interruption: £2,000 or more
• Missed departure: £500 or more
• Delay: £200 or more
• Baggage cover: £1,500 or more
• Personal liability cover: £2 million or more

Deductibles/excess

Deductibles, also known as the excess, is the amount you have to pay out of your own pocket before your travel insurance will start paying for your claim.

You have to make a trade-off when it comes to choosing the excess and the best travel insurance policy for you.

The lower the excess on a travel insurance policy, the better for you if you have to claim because you will have less to pay from your own pocket (or, more often, deducted from your claim).

But lower excess travel insurance policies are more expensive because the insurer knows it has more to pay out if you claim. Higher excess policies are cheaper, but you’ll have more deducted from your claim.

An exclusion on a travel insurance policy is an event the policy will not cover you for.

Common exclusions on a standard travel insurance policy may not be obvious. According to the ABTA – The Travel Association, these include:

• Incidents that occur after drinking too much alcohol or taking drugs
• Theft of unattended possessions
• Sports, extreme sports and activities such as skiing, white water rafting and bungee jumping
• Medical treatment resulting from existing medical conditions you have not declared or conditions preventable by vaccine or advisable medication, such as antimalarials
• Medical costs if you stay abroad after your doctor says you are fit to return to the UK
• Strikes and industrial action if it was known when you booked your trip
• Rescheduled flights where the airline has cancelled and then rescheduled your flight
• Travel to destinations where the FCDO advises against all but essential travel

To get the best travel insurance deals, one way around some of these exclusions is to buy add-ons for adventure activities. In addition, make sure to declare all pre-existing conditions and keep an eye out for any travel disruptions before you book.

Pre-existing conditions

Pre-existing conditions are illnesses or medical conditions you have and are aware of before you travel.

Travel insurance companies will ask you to disclose any pre-existing conditions. If you use a comparison website, it will be among the first questions you’re asked before it shows you quotes. It’s important to be honest.

Some travel insurance companies, but not all, will offer cover for pre-existing medical conditions, while others will offer cover but exclude any claims arising from that medical condition. This will depend on the person being covered and the medical condition.

Most price comparison websites include an option to show insurers who do offer coverage for pre-existing conditions, so that would be a good place to start.

The following are likely to be considered pre-existing conditions you should disclose, according to the government-backed MoneyHelper website:

• A condition where you are on a list for an operation
• A condition where you are waiting for test results
• Anything you have been to the doctor about in the last year, including minor things
• Any serious conditions you’ve ever had – for example, cancer, heart trouble, respiratory problems or a mental health breakdown

A good tip for everyone, but especially if you have a pre-existing condition, is to buy your travel insurance as soon as you book your holiday. If your condition gets worse and forces you to cancel your plans, you’ll be covered from the day the policy starts.

On family group policies, the cost will be determined based on the riskiest traveller (according to insurers), which could be someone with a pre-existing condition or an older individual. In this case, it is often cheaper for the group for that person to get a separate policy.

Add-on options

Add-ons are extras you can purchase in addition to a standard travel insurance policy. They cost a bit more, but you may find you’re not covered without them. 

Gadget insurance

This covers things that a standard policy may not, such as your mobile phone or laptop. If these items are covered, you may find the claim limits are far less than the cost of replacing them.

Before you add this option to your travel insurance, check your home insurance policy, because you may already be covered.

Winter sports/adventure activities

Riskier activities, such as skiing or white water rafting, often require extra holiday insurance because insurers think that you are more likely to need to make a claim doing these things.

Winter sports/adventure activities cover is worth getting, or you may find you are not covered for medical expenses if something goes wrong.

Standard travel insurance is generally meant for land-based holidays so you’ll need to opt for a specialist cruise policy if your holiday is a cruise.

European FCDO travel advice extension

Most standard travel insurance policies are invalid if you travel when the FCDO advises against “all but essential travel”.

This add-on allows you to travel to Europe with a valid travel insurance policy, even if the FCDO has advised against it.

This can be an expensive add-on, but if you really must travel to a risky area, you will need this extension in order to make sure you have cover.

Best holiday insurance summary

Choosing the right travel insurance is an essential part of enjoying peace of mind while you are on holiday.

When looking for the best travel insurance deals, don’t just pick the cheapest policy. Instead, look for the cover limits that match your requirements. For example, baggage cover of £5,000 isn’t worth having if your baggage is worth £1,000; cancellation cover up to £10,000 isn’t worth having if your holiday cost you £2,000.

The easiest way to compare the best travel insurance is usually by using a travel insurance comparison website.

Think about the sort of activities you’ll be doing while you’re away. You may need extra holiday insurance for things such as winter sports or scuba diving or if you are going on a cruise.

Be honest about any pre-existing conditions when buying your travel insurance, or you won’t be covered if you have to claim.

The best travel insurance is a safety net for you and your family to enjoy your trip away stress-free, knowing that you’re covered for everything from medical expenses to cancellations if things go wrong.

Frequently asked questions about the best travel insurance UK packages

Is travel insurance necessary for domestic travel within the uk.

Even where medical costs in the UK are covered by the NHS, a sudden illness could lead to other expenses, forcing you to cancel your trip, the costs of which travel insurance would cover.

Lost or stolen luggage and broken gadgets or other claims for damage can just as easily occur in the UK as abroad.

What is annual travel insurance, and is it a good option for frequent travellers?

Annual travel insurance is a policy that covers you for multiple trips away within any 12-month period. It is often cheaper than buying a separate policy for each trip if you are planning to go away multiple times in one year.

Annual travel insurance is also useful if you are planning a long trip visiting several countries, as often insurers require you to buy travel insurance before you leave the UK rather than abroad mid-trip.

Are there any travel insurance companies that specialise in certain types of trips or travellers?

Specialist travel insurers cater to specific groups of people. It can make sense to seek out travel insurers that cover your needs.

Adventures Insurance, Sports Cover Direct and Snowcard tailor their travel insurance to those who enjoy activity holidays and extreme sports, for example.

Senior travellers are the focus of policies from All Clear, Avanti, Co-op Insurance Services, Free Spirit Flex, Good 2 Go Extra, Goodtogo Insurance, Saga, Staysure and Total Travel Protection.

Insurers offering business trip cover include Allianz, Direct Line, Coverwise and Insure & Go.

How do I make a claim with my travel insurance company?

To claim on your travel insurance while you are away, make sure that you take your policy number with you and the emergency number for your insurer. If you are travelling abroad, take any international numbers too.

Call your insurer as soon as you realise you need to make a claim. Keep all receipts and medical expense forms. If you are travelling with other people, make them aware of your policy details and the insurer’s phone number in case they need to call on your behalf.

To make a claim when you return home, check the following:

• You haven’t left it too late to make a claim
• What you’re claiming for is covered
• The excess is not more than the value of your claim (if so, it’s not worth claiming)

Notify your insurer as soon as possible for a claim form, send it back fast and keep a copy of it. You should also include copies of paperwork to support your claim, such as receipts or medical certificates (keep copies of the originals in case your claim is queried or refused).

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United Kingdom Travel Insurance

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At a minimum, your travel insurance should cover trip cancellation, trip interruption and emergency medical expenses. When it comes to international travel, the US Department of State outlines key components that should be included in your travel insurance coverage.  AXA Travel Protection plans are designed with these minimum recommended coverages in mind. 

• Medical Coverage   – The top priority is making sure your health is in order. With AXA Travel Protection, you can have access to quality healthcare during your trip overseas in the event of unexpected medical emergencies.    
• Trip Cancellation & Interruptions  – Assistance against unexpected trip disruptions can dampen the mood, AXA Travel Protection offers coverage against unforeseen events.   
• Emergency Evacuations and Repatriation   – In situations where transportation is dire, AXA Travel Protection offers provisions for emergency evacuation and repatriation.   
• Coverage for Personal Belongings  – AXA offers coverage for your belongings with assistance against lost or delayed baggage.   
• Optional Cancel for Any Reason  – For added flexibility, AXA offers optional Cancel for Any Reason coverage, allowing you to cancel your trip for non-traditional reasons.  Exclusive to Platinum Plan holders. 

In just a few seconds, you can get a free quote and purchase the best travel insurance for the United Kingdom.

Picture this: You've planned a scenic road trip through the Scottish Highlands, a land of misty glens and ancient castles. You stumble upon the enchanting Fairy Pools on the Isle of Skye. Imagine, a misstep on the slippery terrain, and suddenly you've got a sprained ankle, not the souvenir you had in mind. With AXA Travel Protection, you receive access to our 24/7 emergency hotline.  Speak to a licensed multilingual travel assistance agent, they can help assist and direct emergency transportation if necessary to your location. With an AXA Travel Protection plan, we are here to assist and support you whenever and wherever you may be. Here’s the entire list of benefits travelers can have access to with an AXA Travel Protection Plan:

Medical Benefits: 

• Emergency Medical Expenses: Should you fall ill or have an accident during your trip, your policy may offer coverage for medical expenses, including hospital stays and doctor's fees. 
• Emergency Evacuation & Repatriation: In case of a serious medical emergency, your policy may include provisions for evacuation to the nearest appropriate medical facility or repatriation. 
• Non-Emergency Evacuation & Repatriation : In non-medical crises (e.g., political unrest), your policy may cover evacuation or repatriation, subject to policy terms. 

Baggage Benefits: 

• Luggage Delay: If the airline delays your checked baggage, your policy might offer reimbursement for essential items like clothing and toiletries. 
• Lost or Stolen Luggage: In the unfortunate event of permanent loss or theft of your luggage, your policy may offer reimbursement for its value, assisting you in replacing your belongings. 

Pre-Departure Travel Benefits: 

• Trip Cancellation: You may be eligible for reimbursement if you cancel your trip due to a sudden illness or injury. 
• COVID-19 Travel Insurance: Coverage is available for trip cancellation and medical expenses related to COVID-19, subject to policy terms and conditions. 
• Trip Delay: If your flight faces delays due to unforeseen circumstances, you may have coverage for additional expenses such as meals and accommodations. 

Post-Departure Travel Benefits

• Trip Interruption: In case of an unexpected event, you could be eligible for reimbursement for the unused portion of your trip.
• Missed Connection: If you miss a connecting flight due to delays or cancellations, this coverage may help with expenses like rebooking fees and accommodations.

Additional Optional Travel Benefits:  

• Rental Car (Collision Damage Waiver): Exclusive to Gold & Platinum plan policy holders, this optional benefit gives travelers extra coverage on their rental car against damage and theft. 
• Cancel for Any Reason: Exclusive to Platinum plan policy holders; this optional benefit gives travelers more flexibility to cancel their trip for any reason outside of their standard policy. 
• Loss Skier Days: Exclusive to Platinum plan policy holders, this optional benefit offers reimbursement to mitigate some costs associated with pre-paid ski tickets that you or your traveling companion cannot use due to specified slope closures. 
• Loss Golf Days: Exclusive to Platinum plan policy holders, this optional benefit offers reimbursement to mitigate the expenses linked to prepaid golf arrangements that you or your travel companion are unable to utilize due to specified golf closures. 

Americans aren't required to purchase domestic or international travel insurance to visit the United Kingdom. But it’s still highly recommended that you have a travel insurance plan before embarking on your next trip. 

Why? There are several reasons:

Medical Emergencies: Your health is a top priority. If you face a sudden illness or injury in New York, travel insurance offers the means to receive prompt and quality medical care.

Lost Baggage: Airlines sometimes mishandle baggage, and the last thing you want is to be without your essentials in an unfamiliar place. Travel insurance offers to cover the cost of replacing necessary items, allowing you to continue on.

Flight Delays: Travel disruptions like flight delays can happen. If you miss a connecting flight or incur additional expenses due to delays, travel insurance can help cover the costs.

In general, travel insurance to the United Kingdom costs about 3 – 10% of your total prepaid and non-refundable trip expenses. The cost of travel insurance depends on two factors for AXA Travel Protection plans: 

• Total Trip cost:  The total non-prepaid and non-refundable costs you have already paid for your upcoming trip. This includes prepaid excursions, plane tickets, cruise costs, etc. 
• Age:  Like any other insurance type, the correlation is rooted in increased health risks associated with older individuals. It's important to note that this doesn't make travel insurance unattainable for older individuals. 

With AXA Travel Protection, travelers to the United Kingdom will be offered three tiers of insurance:  Silver,   Gold  and  Platinum . Each provides varying levels of coverage to cater to individual's preferences and travel needs. 

AXA presents travelers with three travel plans – the  Silver Plan ,  Gold Plan , and  Platinum Plan , each offering different levels of coverage to suit individual needs. Given that United Kingdom hospitals often do not accept U.S. health insurance or Medicare, we genuinely recommend travelers consider purchasing any of these plans, particularly for the crucial coverage they offer for emergency accident and sickness medical expenses.  

The Platinum Plan  is your go-to choice if you're looking for extra coverage aligned with the United Kingdom experience. " Cancel for Any Reason " offers greater flexibility for those unexpected twists in your travel plans and the " Rental Car (Collision Damage Waiver) " offers assistance when you're out exploring the United Kingdom's stunning landscapes in a rental car. 

Additionally, part of the Platinum Plan is the " Lost Skier Days " benefit, offering potential reimbursement if ski resorts unexpectedly close due to ever-changing snow conditions. These perks make the Platinum Plan an excellent option for anyone seeking comprehensive protection during their exciting United Kingdom adventures. 

Traveling with pre-existing medical conditions can complicate your plans, but with AXA Travel Protection, we're here to support you during your trip.   Our Gold and Platinum  plans offer coverage for pre-existing medical conditions.  The Platinum plan, in particular, is our highest-offered choice for travelers who want our highest coverage limits and optional add-ons, 

What does this mean for you? If you've got a medical condition hanging around, you can qualify for coverage under our Gold and Platinum plan with a pre-existing medical condition , so long as it’s within 14 days of placing your initial trip deposit and in our 60-day look-back period. We're here to ensure you travel easily, no matter your health situation. 

American visitors can breathe a sigh of relief that the UK no longer has any COVID-19 restrictions for visitors coming from the United States. You do not need to fret over getting a COVID test or submit proof of vaccination upon arrival in the UK. 

It’s illegal to drive in the UK without vehicle insurance. This also applies to those driving on an international license, even if it’s only for a brief period. If you are renting a car, however, we strongly recommend you purchase rental car insurance. AXA Travel Protection can help you with that by offering Rental Car Insurance (Collision Damage Waiver.)  This coverage provides extra coverage for your rental car against damage and theft.

American citizens are considered non-visa nationals in the UK. Therefore, they neither require a visa (for short-term travel) nor need to fulfill any other conditions to visit and travel across the UK.

UK Travel Insurance FAQs

1. can you buy travel insurance after booking a flight.

It's advisable to purchase travel insurance for your trip as soon as you have made your initial trip deposit (prepaid and non-refundable trip costs.) 

AXA Travel Protection offers coverage as soon as you purchase your protection plan. We can give coverage against unforeseen events before you leave for your trip. Additionally, our policies offer coverage for preexisting medical conditions and Cancel for Any Reason if you purchase your protection within 14 days of making your initial trip deposit.

2. Do Americans need travel insurance for the UK?

UK law doesn’t require U.S. citizens visiting the UK for a short time (up to six months) to carry travel insurance. However, carrying international travel insurance for the United Kingdom for unforeseen events is a good idea.

3. What is needed to visit the United Kingdom from the USA?

U.S. citizens only need a passport and a ticket to travel to the UK. The passport must have at least one empty page and validity for the duration of your trip.

4. What happens if a tourist gets sick in the United Kingdom?

The UK has a National Health System (NHS) that provides medical care nationwide.  If a tourist gets sick in the UK, they can get medical care from an NHS center.  However, it’s important to note that while the NHS services are free for the locals, tourists are charged about 150 percent of the cost of their treatment.

Disclaimer: It is important to note that Destination articles are for editorial purposes only and are not intended to replace the advice of a qualified professional. Specifics of travel coverage for your destination will depend on the plan selected, the date of purchase, and the state of residency. Customers are advised to carefully review the terms and conditions of their policy. Contact AXA Travel Insurance if you have any questions.  AXA Assistance USA, Inc.© 2023 All Rights Reserved.  

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Travel Insurance

Travel stress-free with our 5 star rated platinum cover, medical expenses cover.

Up to £20m cover for emergency illness or injury

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Up to £2.5K cover for loss, theft or damage of your belongings

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What's travel insurance?

Travel insurance, also known as holiday insurance, protects you and your family against unexpected costs while you're travelling or on holiday.

While it isn't a legal requirement, it covers the cost of things like medical expenses if you get ill or injured abroad, trip cancellation, stolen personal belongings and lost luggage.

What's covered

Here are some key features of our travel insurance. As with any insurance, policy limits and exclusions apply, so always read your policy book.

Emergency medical expenses

We cover reasonable and necessary emergency medical treatment costs if you get ill or injured in an accident abroad.

Delayed or missed departure

If you're delayed or miss your transport due to unforeseen circumstances, we'll cover reasonable costs for accommodation and travel.

Lost or stolen personal belongings

You can claim up to your policy limits if your personal belongings or luggage are lost, stolen or accidentally damaged during your trip.

Cancelling or cutting your trip short

We'll cover costs up to your policy limit for things like deposits or parking fees if you have to unexpectedly cancel or cut short your trip.

Personal liability and legal assistance

We'll support you with legal costs to help you claim damages or compensation for injury, illness or death during your trip.

Specific COVID-19 related events

Read about how COVID-19 affects your travel insurance on our dedicated FAQ page .

What isn’t covered by travel insurance?

This list isn’t exhaustive and doesn’t include exclusions for our specialist travel insurance like adventurous sport and winter sport.

• flights cancelled or delayed for any reason other than severe weather conditions, strike, or mechanical breakdown
• claims related to flights that don't start or end in the UK (connected flights)
• trip cancellation because you’ve changed your mind
• pre-existing conditions you've not declared
• claims related to death or illness of someone not on the policy linked to pre-existing conditions they had at any time before you bought your policy
• lost or stolen items you've left unattended
• claims where you can't give us evidence, for example, a police report or receipts
• being denied entry because you don't have passports or the correct visas
• extreme sports, winter sports or cruise trips unless you've paid for the additional cover
• circumstances that aren’t specified in your policy

However, check your policy book for all exclusions.

Travel Insurance policy book

Choose from three levels of cover.

We have three cover levels for you to choose from, depending on the level of protection you want for your next trip.

Good to know

The table below shows the standard benefits and “up to” limits of each tier. Individual benefits may have different internal limits depending on what you need to claim for.

Why do I need Travel Insurance?

Choosing a travel insurance policy that suits your needs offers financial protection against travel-related emergencies. In particular, getting ill abroad can be very expensive as most countries don't provide free medical care in the same way as in the UK.

For example, in the US, you're charged for an ambulance call out, meaning a trip to the hospital could cost tens of thousands of pounds.

If you're travelling to an EU country or Switzerland, a GHIC card can reduce the cost of medical expenses or make them free of charge, but it won’t fully cover you for medical treatment or repatriation. Read more about getting a GHIC card here .

What type of travel insurance is best for me?

Whether you're flying solo or travelling with your friends and family, we cover the UK, Europe and worldwide.

Single Trip Insurance

Cover for one trip lasting up to 365 days for travellers aged 18 up to 85 years, depending on the destination.

Annual Travel Insurance

Cover for 12 months on an unlimited number of trips lasting up to 31 days each. This is for travellers aged 18 up to 75, depending on region of cover

If you need cover for trips longer than 31 days, you can select the required trip length when completing your quote (subject to eligibility).

Travelling with pre-existing conditions

If you have a pre-existing condition , you must tell us about it when getting a quote to see if we can offer cover and to avoid invalidating your policy. We can't cover your pre-existing conditions unless you've:

• declared them all on your policy
• had written confirmation that we'll cover your medical condition
• paid any additional premium in full

If you're unsure what to declare or unable to find your condition on the medical conditions list, please call  0333 234 9913 .

Please note, if you've tested positive for COVID-19 and been prescribed medication, received treatment, or had a consultation with a doctor or hospital specialist for any medical condition in the past two years, this must be declared on your policy.

Unfortunately, we can't offer cover for all medical conditions. If you have a serious health condition, we recommend using MoneyHelper's travel insurance directory or calling 0800 138 7777 (open Monday to Friday 8:00-18:00 excl. bank holidays).

How to get cheaper travel insurance

There are a few things you can do to lower your travel insurance costs:

How to claim on your travel insurance

We may ask for original receipts, invoices or medical records to support your claim.

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Visit our make a claim page for our contact details or log into  MyAccount

Your questions answered

Is coronavirus covered by my travel insurance.

To find out how Covid-19 affects your travel insurance, take a look at our dedicated FAQ page . 

Is it illegal to travel without holiday insurance?

No, it's not a legal requirement but it gives you cover against things like cancelled holidays, missed transports, missing luggage and injury while abroad.

Does travel insurance cover natural disasters?

Cover for catastrophes including fire, storm, lightning, avalanche, landslide, explosion, hurricane, earthquake, volcanic activity including ash cloud, flood, tidal wave, tsunami, medical epidemic or pandemic are all included as standard on our Gold and Platinum policies. This cover is not included in our Admiral level policy. 

My partner and I live at separate addresses, can we still buy a couple policy?

You have to buy a group policy if you don't live at the same address as your partner.

Our definitions are:

• Individual policy – one adult aged 18 or over.
• Couple policy - two adults aged 18 or over who live at the same address and are in a relationship.
• Family policy – two adults aged 18 or over who live at the same address plus at least one child (maximum 5).
• Family one adult policy – one adult plus at least one child (maximum 5).
• Group policy - between two and ten individuals, who don't need to live at the same address. Each adult is covered to travel individually as well as together.

What is your definition of Europe?

When we refer to Europe , we are referring to the following countries and territories: Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark (including Faroe Islands, excluding Greenland), Egypt, Estonia, Finland (including Aland), France (including Corsica), Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy (including Sardinia and Sicily), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway (including Svalbard), Poland, Portugal (including Azores and Madeira), Republic of Ireland, Romania, Russia (West of Urals), San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain (including the Balearic and Canary Islands), Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, The United Kingdom (including Channel Islands and Isle of Man), Vatican City.

Am I covered for private medical treatment?

No, you will need to have any private treatment pre-authorised by the Emergency Assistance Service. If you are travelling in Europe , Australia or New Zealand you can access public health services, free of charge and you won’t be required to pay any excesses on the Medical Expenses section of your policy.

What happens if I'm the victim of a terrorist attack while I'm abroad?

First of all, we hope that this is never the case. But, if you do need emergency assistance, please call +44 (0)29 2010 7777 at any time and we'll do everything we can to help.

Are there any destinations I can't travel to under my policy?

Yes, no matter which destination you select when you buy your policy, you aren't covered if you travel somewhere the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) advises not to go to. For more information see the FCDO's foreign travel advice page or call  020 7008 1500 .

What cover is there for dental treatment?

With new policies, you’re covered for up to £400 for “emergency dental treatment for the immediate relief of pain to your natural teeth incurred outside of your home area” under the Emergency Medical and Repatriation section of your cover (subject to your excess).

Can I upgrade my travel policy cover level after I’ve taken it out?

No, sorry. Currently, this isn’t possible.

Is terrorism covered?

Terrorism is excluded from all sections of the policy except for the Emergency Medical and Repatriation, Personal Belongings, Personal Accident and Hijack sections (where cover is provided as part of the platinum tier only).

Terrorism is any act or threat of action by a person or group intended to influence a government or to frighten the public or any section of it.

Acts of terrorism can include:

• violence against a person
• damage to property
• putting life in danger
• creating a health risk to the public
• interfering with or seriously disrupting computer systems or transport services including cyber terrorism
• biological, chemical or nuclear force or contamination

Can I get cover in the event of scheduled airline failure?

We will not pay any claim due to the actions or failure of any company providing or organising your transport or accommodation, to provide those services (whether caused by error, insolvency, bankruptcy, liquidation, omission, default or other reason).

Do I need to declare existing medical conditions to get Admiral cover?

Declaring your medical conditions will ensure you are purchasing a policy which meets your needs. It’s important you supply accurate and complete answers to all questions as failure to do so could mean your policy is invalid and/or your claim is not paid in full or refused.

I have an Annual Multi-Trip policy. What is the longest I can go on holiday for?

You can take as many trips as you want within 365 days (as per the dates shown on your policy schedule), providing each trip lasts no more than 31 days. If you need cover for trips longer than 31 days, let us know when you get a quote (subject to eligibility).

Take a look at our Annual Travel Insurance page to learn more.

Will my holiday insurance cover me if the travel agent/tour operator/airline company goes into administration?

No it doesn't cover this. If the company is an ABTA member, you can submit a claim to them for the cost of your holiday.

Do you cover children under 18?

Cover can’t be bought for a child under the age of 18 alone. A child under 18 can be added to our family policies where at least one adult over the age of 18 is also going on the trip (single trip policies).

A child can be added to annual multi trip family policies where the insured adult will travel later in the policy term. Each insured child under the age of 18 will only be covered if they’re travelling with a responsible adult. This adult doesn’t need to be insured with us.

What happens if I can't return from my trip on my planned date because of illness or injury; am I still covered?

Yes, we extend your policy and continue to provide cover in those circumstances where the delay is completely outside of your control.

I don't live in the UK – can I get travel cover?

Unfortunately not. It's only available to permanent residents of the UK (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Man).

What happens if strike/industrial action disrupts my trip?

Provided you weren’t aware of the strike/industrial action at the time you booked your policy, and it wasn’t public knowledge, we’ll pay up to the limits shown in your policy schedule for irrecoverable costs you've paid.

What happens if my baggage is delayed, lost or stolen?

If your baggage is delayed or lost in transit, you should tell the company transporting your baggage within 24 hours of discovery. Ask them to complete a Property Irregularity Report or give you with a baggage loss receipt. If your baggage is delayed for more than 12 hours from when you arrive at your destination, your policy provides cover to buy necessary items (up to £50, £100 or £150 depending on your tier of cover).

If your baggage is stolen, you should report this to the local police within 24 hours of discovering the theft and get a written report. You can claim (up to £1,000, £2,000 or £2,500 depending on your tier) for stolen or lost items. There's a single item limit and total valuables limit (up to £200, £300 or £400 depending on your tier).

Are there any charges to change my policy?

No, we don’t charge any admin fees.

What should I do if I or someone travelling with me becomes ill during my holiday?

If you or someone covered by your policy becomes ill or is injured during your trip and needs emergency medical treatment, please go to a public medical facility and contact our 24 hour emergency assistance line on +44 (0)29 2010 7777 as soon as you can.

Please call this number if you're unsure where to get treatment, you think costs may go over £500, or you think you'll need to cut your trip short.

For minor ailments while abroad, pharmacies and public health facilities are often able to give advice and provide treatment. If costs are more than the policy excess and you want to make a claim, please keep all receipts and call our claims line on  0333 234 9914 .

Does my policy allow someone to travel out to be with me if I am ill abroad?

Yes. If you've been given medical advice that someone should stay with you and that requires someone travelling from the UK to be with you, we'll cover the reasonable extra transport and accommodation costs (up to the policy limit) for that person.

How long can I travel for?

The maximum length of a Single Trip policy is 12 months, making it ideal for backpackers and students taking a gap year.

If you choose an Annual Multi-Trip policy you can take as many trips as you want within 365 days (as per the dates shown on your policy schedule), providing each trip lasts no more than 31 days. If you need cover for trips longer than 31 days, let us know when you get a quote (subject to eligibility).

How to extend travel insurance due to illness or injury

If you have to extend your trip for medical reasons our policies will automatically provide cover until you return home.

If you have a single trip policy and need to change your travel dates, you must contact us before you go on your trip.

If you have annual multi-trip cover, the maximum length per trip on the policy is 31 days as standard unless we've agreed to cover you for a longer trip and this is stated in your policy schedule.

If your annual policy is due to end while you're on holiday and your policy is not set up to automatically renew, please contact us before you travel so we can arrange for your policy to continue while you're away.

What should I do if my travel is disrupted by severe weather?

We’ll pay £25 for each 12 hours you are delayed (up to a maximum of £250 or £300 depending on your cover tier) from starting your journey due to severe weather.

If your transport is delayed for more than 24 hours or cancelled and cannot be rearranged for over 24 hours, cover is provided (for costs up to £1,000 on Admiral, £3,000 on Admiral Gold and £5,000 on Admiral Platinum) if you decide to cancel or abandon your trip.

Additional transport and accommodation cover

We can reimburse you for additional transport and accommodation costs if you decide to continue with your trip after:

• your prebooked transport was delayed for more than 24 hours
• your transport was cancelled, and no alternative could be found within 24 hours of your original departure time

We can only reimburse you these costs if they are less than the cost of abandoning the trip. 

We won't make any payments if they aren’t additional to costs you were already expecting to pay - for example if you get a refund and the cost of alternative transport or accommodation is less than the refund. Check your policy book for full details.

Do you cover my car if it breaks down when I'm driving in Europe?

No, your holiday insurance doesn't cover car breakdown. However, if you have Admiral Car Insurance , you can extend this to provide European Breakdown Cover . This covers you and your car in case it breaks down while abroad in Europe.

What does excess mean in travel insurance?

The policy excess is the amount you must pay towards any claim. The excess applies to each insured person and each event that leads to a claim. Multiple excesses may apply for claims under each section.

Can I get one-way travel insurance?

No, Admiral doesn't offer one way travel insurance. To buy our cover, you'll need to be travelling from and returning to the UK.

Do you cover travellers over the age of 70 for Annual Multi-Trip policies?

Yes, we can provide worldwide cover for customers up to the age of 75 years for annual multi trip policies – and up to 85 years for single trip policies.

However, the age limit and level of cover we can offer will depend on your personal information and details of your holiday.

Please get a quote or contact us to find out more.

Do you cover travellers over the age of 70 for Single Trip policies?

Am i covered if my flights are disrupted because of brexit.

You’ll be covered if there’s any disruption to your flights (in line with current cover and exclusions) if you already have travel cover or have booked a trip on your annual policy.

If there’s an official warning from the Government or airlines that suggests flights are likely to be disrupted, customers buying new policies may not be covered.

I don’t want to travel because of Brexit – can I cancel my trip?

If you decide you don’t want to travel because of Brexit and end up cancelling your trip, you won’t be able to claim. Not wanting to travel isn’t a valid cancellation reason for claiming.

Will I need a visa to travel to the EU after Brexit?

In the future, it's possible UK citizens will need a travel permit as part of the European Travel Information and Authorisation Scheme (ETIAS). 

If you can’t go on your trip because you don’t have the correct visa or permit, you won’t be able to claim on your cover.

How long will I need on my passport after Brexit?

The Government recommends UK travellers have at least six months left on their passports from the date they arrive in an EU country when travelling after 29 March 2019. Check the validity of your passport online with this handy tool .

If you can’t go on your trip as you don’t have enough time left on your passport (or you didn’t renew it in time), you won’t be able to make a claim.

Can I still use my EHIC card after Brexit?

If your EHIC is still in date, you can use it when you travel. Otherwise you’ll need to apply for the new Global Health Insurance Card ( GHIC ).

If you have a medical emergency while you're abroad, you're injured, fall ill, or have to cut your trip short please call our 24-hour Emergency Assistance Helpline on +44 (0)292 010 7777.

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How we calculate your travel insurance premium.

We use multiple factors to calculate travel insurance prices. We constantly check the prices we charge to offer you the best travel insurance premium, but prices also fluctuate depending on the market. Here are a few factors:

• Where you’re going — where you’re going heavily influences how much you’ll pay for travel insurance. The destination tells us how expensive medical treatment is and how much it’d cost to fly you home in an emergency.
• How long you’re going for — simply put, the longer you’re away from home, the higher the risk of you having an accident or losing your things.
• Who you’re travelling with — the age and medical history of everyone travelling impacts your premium price.
• Any medical conditions — depending on the severity of the condition (and, therefore, the potential cost and likelihood of treatment), your premium is likely to be higher.
• The cost of medical treatments — on average, the cost of medical treatment is higher outside of Europe. Plus UK citizens can use a GHIC card in the EU to access treatment and, in some cases, reduce the cost.
• What you’ll do on your trip — you increase your risk of injury on winter sports trips, meaning it’ll cost more to insure. But, without specialist cover, any related claims will be rejected.
• What’s going on in the world — currency fluctuations can make it more expensive for us to settle claims with companies or services based abroad. Increased risk of terrorism, airline strikes or natural disasters will also impact your premium.
• Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) — by law, we add a 20% tax to your travel insurance premium. Read more about why we do this.

How to get a travel insurance quote

We need to know a few things to get your quote

What type of travel insurance you need

Do you have one trip planned or multiple trips for the year?

About your trip

• Your destination or region
• How long you're going for
• Who you're travelling with

Traveller details

• Date of Birth
• Contact information

Any medical conditions

Let us know if you have any medical conditions we need to know about.

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