I'm old enough to remember the empire when it still was the empire. I was brought up in a world whose map was painted very largely red, and I went out into the world when I was young in a spirit of imperial arrogance. I felt, like most British people my age, that I was born to a birthright of supremacy; out I went to exert that supremacy.


Paris Review (Summer 1997)

Jan Morris Quotes

I'm old enough to remember the empire when it still was the empire. I was brought up in a world whose map was painted very largely red, and I went...

I'm old enough to remember the empire when it still was the empire. I was brought up in a world whose map was painted very largely red, and I went...

I'm old enough to remember the empire when it still was the empire. I was brought up in a world whose map was painted very largely red, and I went...

I'm old enough to remember the empire when it still was the empire. I was brought up in a world whose map was painted very largely red, and I went...