Lord Dunsany Quotes

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• Humanity, let us say, is like people packed in a automobile which is traveling downhill without lights at a terrific speed and driven by a…
• Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
• I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for…
• Yet in the blood of man there is a tide, an old sea-current, rather, that is somehow akin to the twilight, which brings him rumours…
• It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to notice what arms the officers…
• How beautiful are dreams! In dreams the dead may live, even the long dead and the very silent.
• And at that moment a wind came out of the northwest, and entered the woods and bared the golden branches, and danced over the downs,…
• And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder of later years,…
• And she would not hold back his limbs when his heart was gone to the woods, for it is ever the way of witches with…
• Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the…
• There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those who stay at…
• Once I found out the secret of the universe. I have forgotten what it was, but I know that the Creator does not take Creation…
• If one who looked from a tower for a new star, watching for years the same part of the sky, suddenly saw it (quite by…
• A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.
• Then I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different one from another, because they held different…
• I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog…

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