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Lord Dunsany Quotes

Lord Dunsany quotes

Irish Novelist July 24, 1878 – October 25, 1957

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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 seriously, for I remember that He sat in Space with all His work in front of Him and laughed. Lord Dunsany
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 led a company of scarlet and golden leaves, that had dreaded this day but danced now it had come; and away with a riot of dancing and glory of colour, high in the light of the sun that had set from the sight of the fields, went wind and leaves together. Lord Dunsany
I should have shouted "No" and left him. "But at least" said Satan in the deeps of my mind, "know what the temptation is before you do anything hastily. Lord Dunsany
All we who write put me in mind of sailors hastily making rafts upon doomed ships. When we break up under the heavy years and go down into eternity with all that is ours our thoughts like small lost rafts float on awhile upon Oblivion's sea. They will not carry much over those tides, our names and a phrase or two and little else. Lord Dunsany
For he had acquired a lore in his youth which taught him ever to avoid the aged when merry plans were afoot; for the aged would come with their wisdom and slowness of thought, and other plans would be made, and there would be, at least, delay. Lord Dunsany
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 dreams. Lord Dunsany
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 world we know: for we have new worlds here. Lord Dunsany
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 any two things to care for the more mysterious of the two. Lord Dunsany
Lord Dunsany quote: "A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and..."
A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders. Lord Dunsany
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 of the law are carrying: in England it is little batons, in France swords, in many countries revolvers, and in Russia the police used to have artillery. 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. Lord Dunsany
Lord Dunsany quote: "Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in..."
Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. Lord Dunsany

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