Andrew Lang

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading!…

— Andrew Lang

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

— Andrew Lang

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

— Andrew Lang

“I fear nothing when I am doing right,' said Jack. 'Then,' said the lady in the red cap, 'you are one of…

— Andrew Lang

“So labour at your Alphabet, For by that learning shall you get To lands where Fairies may be met.”

— Andrew Lang

Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so…

— Andrew Lang

“He loathes what he has left behind him, and it is natural to guess that, in his first years of priesthood, his…

— Andrew Lang

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.

— Andrew Lang

If the wild bowler thinks he bowls, Or if the batsman thinks he's bowled, They know not, poor misguided souls, They, too,…

— Andrew Lang

O grant me a house by the beach of a bay, Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play With…

— Andrew Lang

“If there are frightful monsters in fairy tales, they do not frighten you now, because that kind of monster is no longer…

— Andrew Lang

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.

— Andrew Lang

“For, as I told you, Good deeds bear their own fruit!”

— Andrew Lang

“The enthusiasm which induced a priest, notary, and teacher like Knox to carry a claymore in defence of a beloved teacher, Wishart,…

— Andrew Lang

“Madame d'Aulnoy is the true mother of the modern fairy tale. She invented the modern Court of Fairyland, with its manners, its…

— Andrew Lang

. . . had I a river I would gladly let all honest anglers that use the fly cast line in it,…

— Andrew Lang

“Here stand my books, line upon line They reach the roof, and row by row, They speak of faded tastes of mine,…

— Andrew Lang

“...she has been bewitched by a wicked sorceress, and will not regain her beauty until she is my wife.' 'Does she say…

— Andrew Lang

Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.

— Andrew Lang

“You see how self-love keeps us from knowing our own defects of mind and body. Our reason tries in vain to show…

— Andrew Lang

Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.

— Andrew Lang

“The advantage of possessing a great empire is not to be able to do the evil that one desires, but to do…

— Andrew Lang

There's a joy without canker or cark, There's a pleasure eternally new, 'T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark…

— Andrew Lang

“Knox could not fail to see what was so patent: many books of the German reformers may have come in his way;…

— Andrew Lang

“To the enormous majority of persons who risk themselves in literature, not even the smallest measure of success can fall. They had…

— Andrew Lang