1 – “Here people was once used to be honourable: now they are all bad; they have kept one goodness: that they are greatest boozers.” – Marco Polo
2 – “You will hear it for yourself, and it will surely fill you with wonder.” – Marco Polo
3 – “The personal appearance of the Great Kaan, Lord of Lords, whose name is Cublay, is such as I shall now tell you.” – Marco Polo
4 – “You will hear it for yourselves, and it will surely fill you with wonder.” – Marco Polo
5 – “I have not told the half of what I saw.” – Marco Polo
6 – “I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed” – Marco Polo
7 – “My heart beats as much as I can breathe.” – Marco Polo
8 – “I did not tell half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed” – Marco Polo
9 – “I have not told half of what I saw”
10 – “My heart beats as much as I can breathe”
Few more meaningful Marco Polo Quotes on Life, Power, Money, and Travel
“For, tell it how I might, you never would be satisfied that I was keeping within truth and reason”
“The Kaan causes every year to be made such a vast quantity of this money, which costs him nothing, that it must equal in amount all the treasure in the world”
“The Emperor himself is carried upon four elephants in a fine chamber made of timber, lined inside with plates of beaten gold, and outside with lion’s skins”
“And nobody, however important he may think himself, dares to refuse them on pain of death”
“They have the best falcons in the world and also the best dogs in Tibet”
“They stormed a tower belonging to some of the islanders who refused to surrender, and they cut off the heads of all the garrison except eight”
“These people of Tibet are an ill-conditioned race. They have mastiff dogs as big as donkeys, which are capital at seizing wild beasts”
“I speak and speak, … but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. … It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear”
“For the Great Kaan their king is, I tell you, the wisest and most accomplished man, the greatest Captain, and best to govern men and rule an Empire, as well as the most valiant, that ever existed among the Tribes of Mongols”
Quotes on Marco Polo
The biographer Laurence Bergreen commented on his recognition as the intrepid traveller: “He was: a chronicler rather than a fantasist. Vindication took a long time in coming, centuries, in fact”
The author Nick McCarty was energetic about his exploits: “In a life of ceaseless exploration, Marco Polo pushed out the borders of his narrow medieval world”
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