John Mandeville > Quotes

“...[I]t behooves a man who wants to see wonders sometimes to go out of his way.”
― John Mandeville, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

“We know not whom God loves nor whom He hates.”
― John Mandeville, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

“Of Paradise I cannot speak properly, for I have not been there; and that I regret.”
― Sir John Mandeville, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

“The Book of John Mandeville is a forgery—and the deceit is not redeemed by calling the work a “romance of travel,”1 since it presents itself as historical.”
― John Mandeville, The Book of John Mandeville: with Related Texts