On arrival at a Syrian port the traveller's passport is sometimes asked for, but an ordinary visiting-card will answer the purpose equally well.

-Baedeker, Karl
  Palestine and Syria,'Passports and Custom House'.

I shall have warmonger put on my passport. 182 He would have written sonnets all his life?

-Byron, Robert
c.1938  Comment in response to the riseof Nazism, opposing the policy of appeasement. Quoted in Bruce Chatwin's introduction to The Road to Oxiana (1980 edn). 1819^24  Don Juan, canto 3, stanza 8.

Don't be surprised, If I demur, for, be advised, My passport's green. No glass of ours was ever raised To toastThe Queen.

-Heaney, SeamusJustin
  'An Open Letter to Blake and  Andrew, Editors, Contemporary British Verse, Penguin Books, Middlesex'. Heaney was complaining at his inclusion in the book edited by Blake Morrison and  Andrew Motion on the grounds of his Irish nationality.

The sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in the shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings.

-Marlowe, Christopher
c.1589  The Jew of Malta (published1633), act 2, sc.1.

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship.Everyone who isborn holds dual citizenship, inthekingdomofthewell and inthekingdomofthesick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooneror latereach of us is obliged, at least fora spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.

-Sontag, Susan
  In the NewYork Review of Books, 26 Jan.

I came to the conclusion that some more ascetic reason than mere enjoyment should be found if one wishes to travel in peace: to do things for fun smacks of levity, immoralityalmost, in our utilitarian world. And though personally I think the world is wrong, and I know in my heart of hearts that it is a most excellent reason to do things merely because one likes the doing of them, I would advise all those who wish to see unwrinkled brows in passport offices to start out ready labelled as entomologists, anthropologists, or whatever other - ology they think suitable and propitious.

-Stark, Dame Freya Madeleine
  TheValleys of theAssassins and other PersianTravels.