It will be like a story from the Arabian Nights," he said…

London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs,…

— Oscar Wilde

Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to…

— Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'

— Salman Rushdie

Whatever experimental film aromas cloaked my movies were because I'm a gleefully clumsy, primitive filmmaker. I really like traditional pleasingly narrative films, but I…

— Guy Maddin

“The Isle of Pines was Circe's isle, with white marble columns here and there in the dark, green, and pirates would be dueling with…

— Henry Kuttner

“If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life, to compare it with such things as we know,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“It should have been the Arabian Nights, but to Bond, seeing it first above the tops of trams and above the great scars of…

— Ian Fleming

“In this way he continued until he was fourteen years of age, when his extraordinary destiny took him by the hand, and led him,…

— Arabian Nights

“Where are you going this hot day, Mis’ DeJong?” Selina sat up very straight. “To Bagdad, Mrs. Pool.” “To — Where’s that? What for?” “To sell…

— Edna Ferber

Many of the enchanted things in the book are lamps, carpets, sofas, gems, brass rings. It is a rather different landscape than the fairy…

— Marina Warner

It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling…

— Clarence Day

I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like…

— Haruki Murakami

Scheherazade, of course, was always in the back of my mind, because she's also a storyteller identified as female who tells a lot of…

— Marina Warner

For example, John Law's Mississippi Company venture printed shares, and the money had gone up in smoke when it had been inscribed objects. The…

— Marina Warner

The other thing about the Nights is that it is quite racist. One parentheses is that I think this is one of the negative…

— Marina Warner