Patrick Leigh Fermor

Born 11 February 1915 · Died 10 June 2011

From London, England, United Kingdom · Nationality: United Kingdom · Writes fiction

Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor (11 February 1915 – 10 June 2011) was an English writer, scholar, soldier and polyglot. He played a prominent role in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War, and was widely seen as Britain's greatest living travel writer, on the basis of books such as A Time of Gifts (1977).

Quotes

“This came, usual thing asking for money. Poor Archbishops, I thought, feeling the pinch. But it turned out to be monkeys.”
In Tearing Haste. Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor. Edited by Charlotte Mosley
“Meanwhile, the kittens - downholsterers and interior desecrators to a kitten - demolish all.”
In Tearing Haste. Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor. Edited by Charlotte Mosley
“I constantly find myself saying `I must write — or tell — that to Joan', then suddenly remember that one can't, and nothing seems to have any point.”
More Dashing. Further Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor. Edited by Adam Sisman

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