All Algernon Blackwood Quotes
- The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared. Best
- But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm. Alone
- Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them;… Adventure
- My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond the stars and… Afraid
- It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place… Able
- And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally… Birth
- No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls… First View
- To the Sabbath! To the Sabbath!' they cried. 'On to the Witches' Sabbath!" Up and down that narrow hall they danced, the women on each… Afraid
- The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray. Astray
- Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd. Deep
- No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him. Convincingly
- The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books… Atmosphere
- When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance;… Appearance
- I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed All
- His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was… Alive
- And so with all things: names were vital and important. All