Algernon Blackwood Quotes
The wise are silent, the foolish speak, and the children are thus led astray, for wisdom is not knowledge, it is a realization of the scheme and of one's own part in it.
My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond the stars and beneath the world.
I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.
The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.
No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls of memory.
The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.
No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him.
Mrs. Bittarcy rustled ominously, holding her peace meanwhile. She feared long words she did not understand. Beelzebub lay hid among too many syllables.("The Man Whom The Trees Loved")
What one thinks finds expression in words, and what one says, happens.
It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed.("The Wendigo")
Like many another materialist, that is, he lied cleverly on the basis of insufficient knowledge, because the knowledge supplied seemed to his own particular intelligence inadmissible.("The Wendigo")
