"There is no beauty or romance or mystery……" — Lord Dunsany
"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 home and dream of them."
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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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I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the…
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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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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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More Abroad Quotes
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one of 501 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long…
— Saint Augustine
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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
— Saint Augustine
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Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.
— Alec Baldwin
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
— John Quincy Adams
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It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are…
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
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I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for…
— Bill Bryson
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
— Samuel Butler
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The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a…
— Tucker Carlson
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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly…
— William Ellery Channing
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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own…
— Winston Churchill
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Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to…
— Kofi Annan
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We should strengthen our immigration laws to prevent the importation of foreign wages and working conditions. We should make it…
— Edward Kennedy
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