Quotes by Lord Dunsany

Lord Dunsany

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

Men

Nature

Night

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.

Light

Sight

Wind

And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man’s thought for the wonder of later years, and tell of happening that are gone clean away, and be a voice for us out of the dark of time, and save many a fragile thing from the pounding of heavy ages; or carry to us, over the rolling centuries, even a song from lips long dead on forgotten hills.

Dark

Men

Song

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.

Gone

Heart

Two

And you who sought for magic in your youth but desire it not in your age, know that there is a blindness of spirit which comes from age, more black than the blindness of eye, making a darkness about you across which nothing may be seen, or felt, or known, or in any way apprehended.

Black

Darkness

Eye

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

Bricks

Imagination

Memories

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.

Gentleman

Wise

World

Contrast is the dramatist’s method.

Contrast

Method

Everyone’s future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.

Future

Reality

Treasure

How beautiful are dreams! In dreams the dead may live, even the long dead and the very silent.

Beautiful

Dream

Long

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Becoming

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Black

Born

Bricks

Children

Contrast

Country

Dark

Darkness

Different

Doe

Dream

Eye

Future

Gentleman

Gone

Heart

Hero

Home

Hours

House

Imagination

Insects

Knows

Law

Light

Long

Math

Memories

Men

Method

Modern

Moon

Nature

Needs

Night

Poet

Reality

Russia

Secret

Sight

Song

Space

Spring

Stars

Statistics

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Quotes by Lord Dunsany

Lord Dunsany

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

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.

And you who sought for magic in your youth but desire it not in your age, know that there is a blindness of spirit which comes from age, more black than the blindness of eye, making a darkness about you across which nothing may be seen, or felt, or known, or in any way apprehended.

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

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.

Contrast is the dramatist’s method.

Everyone’s future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.

How beautiful are dreams! In dreams the dead may live, even the long dead and the very silent.

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