Creatures Quote by Jack Vance

“Stories have changed, my dear boy,”the man in the grey suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly sad. “There are no more battles between good…

— Erin Morgenstern

“Stories have changed, my dear boy," the man in the gray suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly sad. "There are no more battles between…

— Erin Morgenstern

And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and…

— Robert James Waller

Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.

— Lord Byron

“There are no more battles between good and evil, no more monsters to slay, no maidens in need of rescue. Most maidens areare perfectly…

— Erin Morgenstern

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

— Erin Morgenstern

For I cannot think that GOD Almighty ever made them [women] so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable…

— Daniel Defoe

Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The carved images on the early Minoan sealstones are tantalising, inscrutable. The Nature Goddess is yanked from the soil like a snake or a…

— Alison Fell

For a real knight, rescuing maidens would be an everyday event." ... "Perhaps a true knight saves himself for the right maiden

— Karen Hawkins

“The natural mates of men were the Meliads[Ash Nymphs], who were Demi-Goddesses, & the Goddesses.Whilst it was believed that women could mate with animals…

— Nicholas Chong

“Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in…

— Russell Hoban