Top 50 Andrew Lang Quotes
#1. The love of books, the golden key, that opens the enchanted door
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#2. It's me," answered the prince. It was the first time he had forgotten his grammar, but he was terribly excited. "What
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#3. In literature, as in love, one can only speak for himself.
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#4. O grant me a house by the beach of a bay,
Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play
With the sea-weed in summer, ye bountiful powers!
And I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray,
For a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.
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#5. I fear nothing when I am doing right,' said Jack.
'Then,' said the lady in the red cap, 'you are one of those who slay giants.
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#6. Our reason tries in vain to show them to us; we refuse to see them till we find them in the way of our interests." Prince
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#7. But when it is a question of the life of a king it is better to sacrifice the innocent than save the guilty
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#8. Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.
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#10. I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.
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#11. You can cover a great deal of country in books.
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#12. The idiot Scotch laird in the story would not let the dentist put his fingers into his mouth, "for I'm feared ye'll bite me".
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#13. It is so delightful to teach those one loves!
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#14. He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts ... for support rather than illumination.
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#15. especially given to dirtying the butter (a thing quite superfluous, according to Captain Burt's description of Highland butter).
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#16. Had I a river I would gladly let all honest anglers that use the fly cast line in it, but, but where there is no protection, then nets, poison, dynamite, slaughter of fingerlings, and unholy baits devastate the fish, so that 'free fishing' spells no fishing at all.
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#17. She has been bewitched by a wicked sorceress, and will not regain her beauty until she is my wife.'
'Does she say so? Well if you believe that you may drink cold water and think it bacon'.
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#18. Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.
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#19. And then they lived happily, and we who hear the story are happier still.
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#22. I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.
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#23. Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining.
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#24. real shepherd to repent of his folly; and before he had gone very far he met with a horse boy and a driver
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#25. Go, my dear, and see how thy grandmamma does, for I hear she has been very ill; carry her a custard, and this little pot of butter.
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#26. Remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.
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#27. Nothing tastes better than what one eats by oneself.
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#28. But we once had some, we white men, in one of the islands. Not the Oui-ouis" (native name for the French), "real white men.
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#29. Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.
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#30. A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.
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#31. This Mr. Harte died on 15th May, 1745, and missed many events of interest by doing so.
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#32. Letters from the first were planned to guide us into Fairy Land.
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#33. Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the old Egyptians, and the Hindoos, and the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?
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#34. Here stand my books, line upon line
They reach the roof, and row by row,
They speak of faded tastes of mine,
And things I did, but do not, know.
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#35. Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.
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#36. She believes that I love her!" cried the King. "What a fatal mistake! What is to be done to undeceive her?" "You know best," answered the Mermaid, smiling kindly at him. "When people are as much in love with one another as you two are, they don't need advice from anyone else.
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#37. There's a joy without canker or cark,
There's a pleasure eternally new,
'T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark
Of china that's ancient and blue.
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#38. Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend "a course of reading." Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course.
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#39. Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.
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#40. An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
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#41. When the old king saw this he foamed with rage, stared wildly about, flung himself on the ground and died.
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#42. suffer hunger,' said the Cat. 'You, little Mouse, cannot venture everywhere in case you run at last into a trap.' This good counsel was followed, and a little pot of fat was bought. But they did not know where to put it. At length, after long consultation,
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#43. her mother's grave. There she lamented her hard
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#44. So labour at your Alphabet,
For by that learning shall you get
To lands where Fairies may be met.
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#45. Indeed it is impossible to set limits to such coincidence, for it would indeed be extraordinary if extraordinary coincidences never occurred.
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#46. If there are frightful monsters in fairy tales, they do not frighten you now, because that kind of monster is no longer going about the world, whatever he may have done long, long ago. He has been turned into stone, and you may see his remains in museums.
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#48. It takes all sorts to make a world," some are soldiers from the cradle, some merchants, some orators; nothing but a love of books was the gift given to me by the fairies.
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#49. My dear Prince, might I beg you to move a little more that way, for your nose casts such a shadow that I really cannot see what I have on my plate
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#50. He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.
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