"I have lived to see that being seventeen……" — Lord Dunsany
"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 no imagination copes with it."
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Lord Dunsany
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16 Quotes by Lord Dunsany
Lord Dunsany has 16 quotes on this site.
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Humanity, let us say, is like people packed in a automobile which is traveling downhill without lights at a terrific…
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Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
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Yet in the blood of man there is a tide, an old sea-current, rather, that is somehow akin to the…
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It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to…
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How beautiful are dreams! In dreams the dead may live, even the long dead and the very silent.
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And at that moment a wind came out of the northwest, and entered the woods and bared the golden branches,…
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And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for…
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And she would not hold back his limbs when his heart was gone to the woods, for it is ever…
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Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that…
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There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it,…
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Once I found out the secret of the universe. I have forgotten what it was, but I know that the…
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If one who looked from a tower for a new star, watching for years the same part of the sky,…
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